X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=39dbb6c02ef1ea422bb677b7b8f5ab320b981d89;hb=1d881f74d4c2c6099107544a5f337837eb281865;hp=2eab9df9249beb4c6ff009ce91fc45520d079ec4;hpb=32d3b398d33736e61b51a14afca8c14decec4437;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2eab9df..39dbb6c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54: +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.55: + * bug fix: fix copy-structure. When copying from stack to heap, garbage + could end up in the heap making GC unhappy. + (Thanks to James Knight, lp#911027) + * enhancements + ** SBCL can now be built using Clang. + * bug fix: compiler errors when weakening hairy integer types. (lp#913232) + * bug fix: don't complain about a too-hairy lexical environment for inlining + when the function has never been requested for inlining. (lp#963530) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.55 relative to sbcl-1.0.54: * enhancements to building SBCL using make.sh: ** --fancy can be specified to enable all supported feature enhancements. ** --with- and --without- can be used to specify @@ -8,7 +18,8 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54: (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not full-blows cross-compilation.) * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax :: - which allows specifying the name of the package for a whole form. + which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the + whole form. * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown) * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a @@ -33,6 +44,14 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54: * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to Luís Oliveira, lp#901661) + * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other + instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64. + * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude + faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial.) + * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially + faster. (lp#902537) + * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can + be stack-allocated. (lp#902351) * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for floating point constants used in full calls. * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to @@ -72,6 +91,16 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54: errors on debugger entry. * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size= argument to make.sh (regression since 1.0.53) + * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with + an external entry point caused compiler-errors. + * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument + no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function. + * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to + subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312) + * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some + forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351) + * bug fix: some of the compile-time side-effects of DEFCLASS were not caught + by package locks. changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53: * minor incompatible changes: