X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=309f2bd6a8d2ccb464a5541c705c63a5143d74ef;hb=4e3b57699314dbd3883470d9b196287b178f3e6d;hp=c51dbde0857be64670250a12d14aad424911c933;hpb=686043635c45a16b418d2cc96a7f704fdab182c2;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c51dbde..309f2bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1059,6 +1059,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1: specification.) changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2: + * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan + Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher) * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section (thanks to Dan Barlow) @@ -1066,12 +1068,91 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2: (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime) * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson) - * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan - Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher) + * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8 + and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular + backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond + Toy) + * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various + fixes by Christophe Rhodes. * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's INFO database to support symbol macros. * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely. (thanks to coreythomas) + * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially + those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are + represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less + likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular + bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to + Christophe Rhodes) + * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal + representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new + SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic. + * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype + which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the + future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of + sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at + . + * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined + dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka) + * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings + that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly. + * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL + can deal with. + * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name + default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to + Martin Atzmueller) + +changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3: + * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count + invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks + to Alexey Dejneka) + * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks + to Pierre Mai) + * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl) + * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent + no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI). + * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is + valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME. + (thanks to Christophe Rhodes) + * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to + Dan Barlow) + * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks + to Christophe Rhodes) + * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading + on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups + in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around. + * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127), + is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as + an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "AB") returns + |AB|, instead of A as it used to. + +changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4: + * bug 140 fixed: redefinition of classes with different supertypes + is now reflected in the type hierarchy. (thanks to Pierre Mai) + * bug 158 fixed: the compiler can now deal with integer loop + increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix + bug 164. + * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings + despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations. (thanks + to David Lichteblau) + * bug 175 fixed: more-closely-ANSI CHANGE-CLASS function, now + accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai) + * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument + count as they should. + * bug fix: classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print + correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai) + * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated + in favor of the new name --disable-debugger option, which takes + effect at a slightly different time at startup (so that e.g. + handling of errors in --sysinit and --userinit files will be affected + differently). The SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER + functions have been added to allow this functionality to be controlled + from ordinary Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the + Debian maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to + build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.) + * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given + a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname; + instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled. planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x: * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe