X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0692ab77e684bbc4f0361b8a7f0b5622a788ace5;hb=dc4be57ff0baeee18d43fbee1bfc1af4af50e522;hp=c74b7b052b9db47d0c135d00ce9de201bc0ac353;hpb=0220b66ca721bc9515ebf2dedab69407850ff518;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c74b7b0..0692ab7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,18 +2,49 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.22 relative to sbcl-0.8.21: * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent --disable-debugger option instead. - * Null lexical environments are now printed as #, + * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with + interrupts enabled. + * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been + inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed. + * null lexical environments are now printed as #, significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces. - * improved the startup banner. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook and - Teemu Kalvas) + * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks + has been added to the manual. * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up. + * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the + size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for + all spaces that need to be at a fixed address. + * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis) + * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now + safe. + * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to + *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*. * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable. (reported by Rajat Datta). + * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local + ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts) + * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien + variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin. * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver. * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG. (reported by Baughn on #lisp) + * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and + fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible) + * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability. + (thanks to Thiemo Seufer) + * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow + purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon) + * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're + calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment + entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid) + * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster. + * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL + on x86-64 + * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work + on Alpha-32. * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration: ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to @@ -33,6 +64,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.22 relative to sbcl-0.8.21: ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64. ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs, resulting in GC crashes. + ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into + optional. changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20: * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has