X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=70dcf9bb39295d5a9ed464aeff27e61cfa30aec4;hb=40bea2551744d3cdc05a79a923fbff79a5755845;hp=cb8226bf59ad24353b1e10b4c16431cb116c147b;hpb=95009657265e2af674bdfa9ce7dc75d819976e5b;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cb8226b..70dcf9b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,98 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.50: +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53: + * enchancement: on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does + the same validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a + comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces. + * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation + correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220) + * bug fix: (directory "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that + resolved to directories. + * bug fix: SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ on GENCGC no longer categorically + refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52: + * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp, + the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum = + (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events. + * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit + targets is now 63 bits (up from 61). + * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location + for complext setf-expanders. + * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO, + GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values + of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an + error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3). + * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64. + * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation + when built with certain compilers. + * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant + rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151) + * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus + code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on + x86oids. (lp#883500) + * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying + to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with + constant characters. + * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage + on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445) + * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to + delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877) + * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length + sequences and :KEY NIL. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51: + * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017. + * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with + an embedded core. + * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular + or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION + argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level. + * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime + hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL + processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only + enable this for compressed cores. + * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses. + * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings + or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table. + * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error. + (lp#738464) + * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with + AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971) + * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of + multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970) + * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list + expressions. (lp#770184) + * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used + as arguments of arithmetic operators. + * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a + fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller) + * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds + from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max + Mikhanosha) + * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are + added or removed works again. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50: + * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer + participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to + MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT. + * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals + and probe counts on Linux. * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.) + * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive + (lp#822712). + * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine + (thanks to Anton Kovalenko). + * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on + x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov). + * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed + to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently + implemented for x86 and x86-64. + * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented + using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.) + * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE. * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle instructions. (lp#814688) * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works. @@ -18,6 +109,21 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.50: (lp#549673) * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one operand is in memory. (lp#814702) + * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599) + * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived + type information associated with the VALUES form. + * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE + forms. (lp#823014) + * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before + first write (lp#561642). + * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974) + * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to + floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler. + (lp#819269) + * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known + functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459). + * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression + since 1.0.48) changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49: * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove