X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=581f4527d90190a8550c01e6171c3419d0d25352;hb=8833e4478c33f09e642c8886fc3505348a744299;hp=441a859c0710022f154ffeb6c6203fac8a54b7ff;hpb=c7410461f77fe65c2913b17d2936c4f6dea2c016;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 441a859..581f452 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1346,12 +1346,18 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9: + * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in + little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic + functionality on said platforms verified. * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its truename. * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY component indicating that directory. + * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of + LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The + reason for the previous behaviour is unclear. * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai): ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now @@ -1371,46 +1377,115 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9: CHANGE-CLASS; ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent lambda lists are added to generic functions; + ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on + CLASS, as specified in AMOP; + ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based + on the order returned by the primary method for classes of + class STANDARD-CLASS; + ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option. * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite: - ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY + ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY; ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the - correct order + correct order; ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before - value producing form + value producing form; ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra - variables are bound and made to have no value + variables are bound and made to have no value; ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with - :FROM-END + :FROM-END; ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument is not a valid sequence index; ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found; - ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly (thanks to Matthew Danish) + ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish) ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type UNDEFINED-FUNCTION; ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting symbol-macro places; + ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument; + ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to + Gerd Moellman) + ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely + specified; + ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an + ignored binding. * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go" invariant when deleting code. * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to Matthew Danish) - * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM bug (thanks - to Matthew Danish) + * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM + bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish) + * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert + Baumann) + * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when + arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and + Pierre Mai) + * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there + is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic + function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann) + * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian + Fondren) + * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly + (thanks to Matthew Danish) + * incremented fasl file version number, because of the + SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures + +changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10: + * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure + accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the + :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to + Valtteri Vuorikoski) + * the compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in + a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET). + * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks + to Lutz Euler) + * support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included. + (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav) + * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time + effect when it is not in a toplevel context. + * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now + stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd + Moellmann) + * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a + rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected + answer. + * the compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the + COERCE and COMPILE functions. + * fixed some more bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection + clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean + clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1); + ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the + same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous + to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A); + ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a + conditional loop clause; + ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM; + ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no + argument) no longer signals an error; + ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package + of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package + ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the + current package); + * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible + change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because + of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO. planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x: -* When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe - later, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and - it's not clear yet how e.g. UNPROFILE will interact with TRACE - and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't matter, though, unless you are - using profiling. If you never profile anything, TRACE should - continue to behave as before.) -* Inlining can now be controlled the ANSI way, without - MAYBE-INLINE, since the idiom + * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles + down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe later, it might impact TRACE. They both + encapsulate functions, and it's not clear yet how e.g. UNPROFILE + will interact with TRACE + and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't matter, though, unless you are + using profiling. If you never profile anything, TRACE should + continue to behave as before.) + * (not done yet, but planned:) Inlining can now be controlled the + ANSI way, without MAYBE-INLINE, since the idiom (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO)) (DEFUN FOO (..) ..) (DECLAIM (NOTINLINE FOO)) (DEFUN BAR (..) (FOO ..)) (DEFUN BLETCH (..) (DECLARE (INLINE FOO)) (FOO ..)) - now does what ANSI says it should. The CMU-CL-style - SB-EXT:MAYBE-INLINE declaration is now deprecated and ignored. + now does what ANSI says it should. The CMU-CL-style + SB-EXT:MAYBE-INLINE declaration is now deprecated and ignored.