X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0e3aec8fab696f22ef7e27dfc3035e2b659172c0;hb=9eec6e12fb6d22101631158dc1012276fd00facc;hp=148efa8eaec7e0c00e658d4055155eed86a2d82b;hpb=151d241aa79f2346ae18d179255fc6b5a2013229;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 148efa8..0e3aec8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,43 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6: + * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF + GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and + therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at + least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation, + however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls + REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP. + * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI + 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. + COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION + argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal + Costanza's "Closer" project) + * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls + COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as + specified by AMOP. + * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of + STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow. + (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others) + * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic + functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible + and Pascal Costanza) + * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname + merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*. + * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment. + (thanks to Cyrus Harmon) + * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at + disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference + (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn) + * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format. + (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of + :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER + * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64 + * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput) + on gencgc + * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64 + (thanks to Lutz Euler) + changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5: * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality(). @@ -12,23 +51,37 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5: on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation. * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms. + * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given + a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL) * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec. - (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas) + (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas) * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning. (thanks to Kevin Reid) + * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be + explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon) + * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM + and dump core on SIGQUIT * threads + ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials + from their parents (see manual) ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage + ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads + suspended for gc * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other. + * GENCGC + ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are + no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified. + ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4: * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package @@ -745,7 +798,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15: (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) + 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)