X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=e3b8953d348249a9cded327257b122b80d7bd508;hb=ab6263cd50869be699c7afea271d626f83a5a27d;hp=4a3381aed670b02e9551f90f8e62a548eca77bd3;hpb=8e1eb3714554b8b93455895756787f6c4f63afc5;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4a3381a..e3b8953 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1346,12 +1346,18 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9: + * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in + little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic + functionality on said platforms verified. * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its truename. * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY component indicating that directory. + * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of + LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The + reason for the previous behaviour is unclear. * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai): ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now @@ -1369,41 +1375,87 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9: instance to return different numbers on distinct instances, while preserving the same return value through invocations of CHANGE-CLASS; + ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent + lambda lists are added to generic functions; + ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on + CLASS, as specified in AMOP; + ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based + on the order returned by the primary method for classes of + class STANDARD-CLASS; + ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option. * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite: - ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY + ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY; ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the - correct order + correct order; ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before - value producing form + value producing form; ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra - variables are bound and made to have no value + variables are bound and made to have no value; ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with - :FROM-END + :FROM-END; ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument is not a valid sequence index; ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found; + ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish) ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type UNDEFINED-FUNCTION; + ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting + symbol-macro places; + ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument; + ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to + Gerd Moellman) + ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely + specified; + ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an + ignored binding. * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go" invariant when deleting code. * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to Matthew Danish) + * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM + bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish) + * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert + Baumann) + * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when + arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and + Pierre Mai) + * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there + is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic + function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann) + * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian + Fondren) + * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly + (thanks to Matthew Danish) + * incremented fasl file version number, because of the + SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures + +changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10: + * fixed some more bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection + clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean + clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1); + ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the + same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous + to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A); + ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a + conditional loop clause; 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 - it's not clear yet how e.g. UNPROFILE will interact with TRACE - and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't matter, though, unless you are - using profiling. If you never profile anything, TRACE should - continue to behave as before.) -* Inlining can now be controlled the ANSI way, without - MAYBE-INLINE, since the idiom + * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles + down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe later, it might impact TRACE. They both + encapsulate functions, and it's not clear yet how e.g. UNPROFILE + will interact with TRACE + and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't matter, though, unless you are + using profiling. If you never profile anything, TRACE should + continue to behave as before.) + * (not done yet, but planned:) Inlining can now be controlled the + ANSI way, without MAYBE-INLINE, since the idiom (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO)) (DEFUN FOO (..) ..) (DECLAIM (NOTINLINE FOO)) (DEFUN BAR (..) (FOO ..)) (DEFUN BLETCH (..) (DECLARE (INLINE FOO)) (FOO ..)) - now does what ANSI says it should. The CMU-CL-style - SB-EXT:MAYBE-INLINE declaration is now deprecated and ignored. + now does what ANSI says it should. The CMU-CL-style + SB-EXT:MAYBE-INLINE declaration is now deprecated and ignored.