X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5bd50ee7f3f8a30510aec6286476e0fddc4c6440;hb=6e89948ce34d63b35eea687ca7cde0f2876c3062;hp=1190b53c49d7b45f922600b1e9a5d5db60eccc78;hpb=89c5e67daff0215420fb0998b8e20915ddea1437;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1190b53..5bd50ee 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,107 @@ +changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20: + * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the + global optimization policy. + * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are + no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the + global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc, + can be set by them. + * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear + in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting + SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*. + * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top + level local call to FOO". + * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments + now have more legible printed representation + * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts + are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT. + * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless + explicitly requested. + * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency + notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs. + (reported by Lutz Euler) + * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in + compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz) + * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a + specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP + the specializer is now possible. + * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the + face of package deletion. + * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged + pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l) + * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines + STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of + STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively. + * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86. + +changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19: + * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander) + * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David + Lichteblau) + * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts. + (thanks to Cheuksan Wang) + * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the + output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI. + (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option) + * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is + more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner + related to the ~@F format directive. + * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald + Hanche-Olsen) + * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a + dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character. + * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible + by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz + Euler) + * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported + by Svein Ove Aas) + * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to + coerce function designators to functions. + * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on + CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed. + * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access + the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE) + * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small + fixnums no longer create extra rationals + * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration: + ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for + character-based file input are correctly transferred to the + start of the buffer at the next read. + ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given, + passing it through to OPEN. + ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT + argument given to internal calls to OPEN. + ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences + ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will + STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character + boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas) + * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port: + ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended + correctly. + ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by + the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang) + ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang) + ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER + for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn) + ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point + operations. + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid + secondary constituent character trait. + ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character + syntax. + ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on + normal termination. + ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true + works more reliably. + ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly + with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers. + ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a + RATIO imagpart. + ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form + (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535). + changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18: * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces @@ -5,6 +109,13 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18: * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported platforms. + * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the + call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time + reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in + foreign functions. + * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods + of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function + itself. * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE. * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and @@ -13,15 +124,35 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18: produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn) * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev) + * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported + by Gabe Garza) + * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with + "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by + Robert J. Macomber) + * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit + vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas) * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames. + * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent + closures. + * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points + when compiled with SAFETY 0. * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration: ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas) + ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and + OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber) + ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the + interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where + lisp characters are not eight bits. * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require the correct number of arguments. + ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied + to displaced strings. + ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid + constituent characters by the tokenizer. changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17: * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with