X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4bdbcd5f423e6fab839fc2453315b81333d9e532;hb=b84b7f3a3c58909c6e252aba8c97148c9ad917b7;hp=99f246ee4c53a2bbe12caf3691b29e2476e8de9d;hpb=ea775867d48327bf1179eb570263427f28083880;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 99f246e..4bdbcd5 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) @@ -1070,8 +1072,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2: and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond Toy) - * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan - Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher) + * 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. @@ -1090,6 +1092,81 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2: 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: + * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the + cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward + bootstrapping under CLISP. + * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the + Alpha architecture. + * 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: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming, + accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai) + * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern + characters in them. + * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore + the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to 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 --disable-debugger option, which is very similar. + (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different + time at startup, causing 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. + +changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5: + * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is + specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between + SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and + reporting the bug.) planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x: * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe