X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=inline;f=NEWS;h=e70ebe77a2809322d77bfcc8ea7befe7da263357;hb=9e4ba79747ea69dc33ef9f6014571dd098d1568d;hp=23759fb3e8de179bedeaffcd88abd6e0861e0a53;hpb=014be6c8db43eb453ae01ae4088ae530852d51a0;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 23759fb..e70ebe7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,14 +1,67 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37: - * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.41 + * build changes + ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using + command-line argument --xc-host= instead of a positional + argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring) + ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line + argument --prefix=. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring) + * optimization: The default implementation of + COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work. + * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use + by multithreaded code. See documentation for details. + * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC. + * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40: + * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is + cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to + COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS. + * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a + CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function + if it exists. + * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39: + * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897) + * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single + call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the + package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS). + * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64 + (lp#533470). + * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38: + * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show + the calling frame. + * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their + space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out + of order). + * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid + platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control + stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants). + * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems. + * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767 + now work on PPC UNICODE builds. + * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the + high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations, + this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic. + * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with + clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser) + * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh + Elsasser). + * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37: + * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095) - * DEPRECATION: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY + * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE. - * DEPRECATION: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of + * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX. - * new contrib: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to contain - additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming; at the - moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox + * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to + contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming; + at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox implementation. * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added @@ -43,6 +96,12 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37: * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing. * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192) + * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with + some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079) + * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on + x86-64. + * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks + to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev) * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE. * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption. * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due @@ -72,6 +131,12 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37: * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely ignored anymore. * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha. + * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures. + (lp#569404) + * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again. + * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>. + * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL + types) could result in type mismatches during compilation. changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36: * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows