X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1fb6c919d876221e6365d0e0da7d2fc57e89b2c2;hb=bd4f596b07e3783992e00eae88afdc05ebe7c6a6;hp=671d259aea17bc34f376cde0893d9ff9bf15bcd1;hpb=f76b45e1a3bb2008540e0db90b591c591315f129;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 671d259..1fb6c91 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,113 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18: + * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in + core, and restored on startup. + * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since + startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME. + * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple + threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run. + * improvement: floating-point exception handling should work on all + POSIX platforms (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES + declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck) + * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already + dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck) + * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a + fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to + Lars Brinkhoff) + * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works. + * bug fix: single stepping on PPC. + * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally + manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier + for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM") + * Improvements to the Windows port: + ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly. + ** stack exhaustion detection works partially. + ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME. + ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child + process. + ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly. + ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS. + ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January + 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable). + ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work. + +changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17: + * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3), + cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to + Max-Gerd Retzlaff) + * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds. + * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly + returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov) + * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly + with non-variable places + * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of + funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS + code more stable against memory faults. + * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an + asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto) + * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that + are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality + of 2 or higher. + +changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16: + * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation + * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The + SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII + external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format + conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING + are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not + SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old + SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT + :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) + * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the + following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*, + *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*, + *ERROR-PRINT-LINES* + * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available + on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms. + * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of + SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT), + not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the + class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and + STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI + 1.4.4.5. + * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on + non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always + ISO-8859-1 + * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead + of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it + to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable + SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET. + * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged + with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help + for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch + to the single-stepper REPL. + * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern + for a type now works. + * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid + Slobodov) + * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler. + (reported by Marco Monteiro) + * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have + non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) + * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on + systems with Unix98 pty semantics. + * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar. + * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip + Gracin). + * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a + type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse"). + * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation, + code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster, + and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before + * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters + whose bindings are modified + * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk): + ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly + ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and + CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version + changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15: * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol @@ -58,6 +167,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15: for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk) * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array element type. + * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types. * thread-safety improvements: ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT. @@ -170,6 +280,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12: faster * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading + * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous + functions changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11: * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier