X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=0b85b4ab411e774debe61b46c7138bff8ed2e802;hb=da554aabb26815adee15c78dd41ced81dd7fd5d2;hp=96a70654e11c473e7b55fcfd81c1d7f1950a3738;hpb=85dc70440d40a589365323c63e0dad039a578b6f;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 96a7065..0b85b4a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,97 @@ +changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16: + * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST, + and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if + *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL) + * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true. + (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL) + * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR + do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for + CMUCL) + * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an + SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the + name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart + permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols. + (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL) + +changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15: + * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now + supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously + supported platforms. + * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple + copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen + any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl) + * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times + no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick, + original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL) + * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well. + (thanks to Richard Kreuter) + * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing + generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals + bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau) + * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have + associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and + Bruno Haible) + * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type + (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL) + * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with + no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition, + redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an + incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach + Beane) + * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the + same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach + Beane) + * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during + IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis) + * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement + returns the right answer. + ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence + creators. + ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically + correct. + ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL. + ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the + correct amounts. + ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats + non-zero minpad parameter correctly. + +changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14: + * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and + SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed + SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of + the supported interface. + * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or + higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible. + * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now + supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on + Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL) + * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword + parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied. + (reported by Johan Bockgaard) + * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds + correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note: + despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to + compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the + same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard) + * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists + (thanks for Teemu Kalvas) + * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next + case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian + Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy) + * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style + warning. (thanks for Zach Beane) + * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly + for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on + SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes) + * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and + LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on + CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann) + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification + directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error. + changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13: * incompatible change: the internal functions SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient @@ -32,6 +126,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13: * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl) + * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be + represented relative to default pathnames. * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho