X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=7e172cfbe329cede2acd4c4c7d6530997e8032e5;hb=16847788605758f428ba9fc3f0f16bfcfda4a4e9;hp=a984c1b91619ce23addf400a074c83264d504a23;hpb=b665ae77fc8e369b8713abf3ca9e3d8455e4c5a7;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a984c1b..7e172cf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,78 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0: + * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on + x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8 + * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly + (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) + * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints) + work on Windows. + * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method + defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using + CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza) + * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions + are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been + declared. + +changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18: + * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86. + (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used + to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup. + * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in + core, and restored on startup. + * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since + startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME. + * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple + threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run. + * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code + compiled with (SAFETY 3) + * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to + NIIMI Satoshi) + * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2) + (thanks to Zach Beane) + * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX + on Linux/x86 + * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format. + (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi) + * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to + Joshua Ross) + * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES + declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck) + * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already + dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck) + * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a + fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to + Lars Brinkhoff) + * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works. + * bug fix: single stepping on PPC. + * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally + manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier + for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM") + * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME + (reported by Josip Gracin) + * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with + incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer) + * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info + (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman) + * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster + and don't cause extra consing + * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors + whose elements types have been declared. + * Improvements to SB-SPROF: + ** Support for allocation profiling + ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs + * Improvements to the Windows port: + ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly. + ** stack exhaustion detection works partially. + ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME. + ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child + process. + ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly. + ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS. + ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January + 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable). + ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work. + changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17: * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3), cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to