X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=289d8c3c19a6a1747e1da1bb696a826838a15339;hb=a4cffc065c83d046fce193919bf6d4e53f181455;hp=09bcece4320505854f7e14f61aa49956eed09573;hpb=9e5e821bec4faad5eb84b3332d98aac497dabcf3;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 09bcece..289d8c3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,52 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8: + * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating + system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including + callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte) + * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul + Dietz) + * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M + Kreuter) + * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64 + * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms + * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL + * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common + immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64 + * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + +changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7: + * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF + GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting + the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified + by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF + GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise. + * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable + value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used + * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with + odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner) + * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as + expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr) + * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot + definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals. + * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol. + * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive, + returning the number of octets which would be written to the + file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber) + * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format + arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David + Lichteblau) + * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS + platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma) + * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms + * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for + index variables in LOOP + * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64 + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations + that don't have a docstring + 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 @@ -6,6 +54,11 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6: 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. @@ -15,15 +68,30 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6: * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza) + * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to + DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by + Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp) + * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some + circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander) * 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) + * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a + floating point index variable or a negative step. changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5: * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on @@ -785,7 +853,7 @@ 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)