X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=7257736c56db9a9b3af41184b536e3735d742d07;hb=9f809e2e8abb84000f35c22a86def1d8085ed791;hp=27782b1f6ba3670d1dfb08503f0d6f4636fe80bd;hpb=d59fb3b0953c8d14427b60f949a0e567a8b79fe0;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 27782b1..7257736 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,90 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11: + * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was + immediately available from the stream + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when + the method is not one of the generic functions' methods. + ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to + structure accessors. + ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C + directive. + +changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10: + * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including + MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel. + * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system + (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR). + * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is + exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*. + * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and + SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of + this change is to make it easier to distribute + location-independent binaries. + * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have + slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by + Pascal Costanza) + * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in + (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them + via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO). + * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the + case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered + to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented, + particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to + Alastair Bridgewater) + * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol + values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller. + (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of + more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized + functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE. + * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86 + * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple + calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT + * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by + SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO + (thanks to James Knight) + * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required + by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall) + changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9: + * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can + be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one + executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL + platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi) + * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now + the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The + old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option. + (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy) + * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its + contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic + links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly + in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME. + * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is + markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector. * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King) + * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert + character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev) + * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an + error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by + Glenn Ehrlich) + * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an + applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on + INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg + no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid) + * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots + added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean + Bresson) + * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp + sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the + 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to + manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL. + (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and + many others over the years) + * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if + the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative. + (thanks to Peter van Eynde) changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8: * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating @@ -57,7 +140,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7: * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations that don't have a docstring - + changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6: * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and