X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=39830be1e1954d88076e59087cbda432b90fc47c;hb=2e3a763ddec79a0888191714c3588b51c689d38c;hp=2aa55db5bcd25f1d49f10c956271482cbc22bd3e;hpb=23c9f168359d3a651d3764ea95705ab953fe08ee;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2aa55db..39830be 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,80 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10: + * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including + MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel. + * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system + (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR). + * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is + exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*. + * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and + SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of + this change is to make it easier to distribute + location-independent binaries. + * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have + slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by + Pascal Costanza) + * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in + (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them + via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO). + * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the + case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered + to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented, + particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to + Alastair Bridgewater) + * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol + values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller. + (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of + more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized + functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE. + * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86 + * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple + calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT + * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by + SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO + (thanks to James Knight) + * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required + by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall) + +changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9: + * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can + be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one + executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL + platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi) + * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now + the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The + old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option. + (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy) + * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its + contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic + links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly + in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME. + * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is + markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector. + * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to + certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King) + * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert + character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev) + * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an + error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by + Glenn Ehrlich) + * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an + applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on + INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg + no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid) + * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots + added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean + Bresson) + * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp + sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the + 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to + manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL. + (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and + many others over the years) + * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if + the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative. + (thanks to Peter van Eynde) + 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) @@ -8,8 +84,20 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8: Dietz) * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M Kreuter) + * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64 + * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and + grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS. + * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname. + (reported by tomppa on #lisp) + * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as + required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE. + (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns) + * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL - * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + * 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 @@ -41,7 +129,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7: * 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