X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2c206719e9ac1adda628a635f8612ef99f92cae6;hb=8c4183ca0134aefafe8c6352e1ea5402138276c4;hp=5c2ea92e7cd89a3c33b7bf17129c7800b0e97226;hpb=3cd198ea8fb1635057038934730624e68b5da012;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5c2ea92..2c20671 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53: * minor incompatible changes: - ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file instead - of the link. + ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file + instead of the link. ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the - directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve - the pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE - if you wish to delete the + directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve the + pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE if + you wish to delete the ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning. * thread-related enhancements: (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign. Many thanks to generous donors!) - ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still - don't consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to - enable them by default, but they're in a clearly better shape now. + ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still don't + consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to enable them by + default, but they're in a clearly better shape now. ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms. ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT argument. @@ -24,31 +24,61 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53: STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS. ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places. - * enchancement: on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does - the same validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a - comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces. + * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes: + ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb, + and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before. + ** on GENCGC targets, the default dynamic space size is now 512Mb for + 32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only + exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The + new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems. + Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with + another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a + good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system + has. + ** on GENCGC targets, nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of + dynamic-space size. + ** on GENCGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ no longer categorically + refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects. + ** on 64-bit GENCGC targets, setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works. + (lp#870868) + ** on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does the same + validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a + comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces. + * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes: + ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak. + ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on + systems with getaddrinfo(). + ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt + safe outside systems with getaddrinfo(). + * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.019. + * enhancement: special-case TCO prevention for functions which never return + extended to untrusted types, keeping one more frame's worth of debug + information around in many cases. + * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more + descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100) * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against overflows. (lp#888410) * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987) + * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing + the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are + located. (Thanks to Zach Beane) + * enhancement: the compiler is now able to derive tighter bounds for + floating point numbers in some cases. (Thanks to Lutz Euler, lp#894498) * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220) - * bug fix: (directory "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that + * bug fix: (DIRECTORY "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that resolved to directories. - * bug fix: SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ on GENCGC no longer categorically - refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects. * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750) - * bug fix: type mismatch on (setf aref) and function return values no + * bug fix: type mismatch on (SETF AREF) and function return values no longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. - * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS issues - ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak. - ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on - systems with getaddrinfo(). - ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt - safe outside systems with getaddrinfo(). - * bug fix: on 64-bit systems setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works. - (lp#870868) + * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT + <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout + instead of partially calculating only to single-precision. (lp#741564; + thanks to Lutz Euler) + * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus + objects when interrupted by GC on PPC. changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52: * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,