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@@ -1010,22 +1010,34 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
     (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
     programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
     away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
+  * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
+    for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
+    seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
+    systems than the old 4M value was)
   * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
     of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other 
     SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
   * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
     an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
   * bug fixes:
+    ?? The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
+       at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
+       optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
+       its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
+       for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
+       recursion!)
     ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
        devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
        between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
-    ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+    ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
+       and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
     ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
        classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
        them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
        for fixing this)
   * several changes related to debugging:
     ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
+    ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
     ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
        is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
        reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL