X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8760976ff38a916e8c53c3855e8b225c14969f40;hb=afcd439dd0d388294feeab17c13325e4dfa75bb2;hp=c3327244c9c2bcf003e9f57c2411a3e716b25fb9;hpb=fbae90af33b92c5411ddcb419485dcf2bca47ab7;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c332724..8760976 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- + * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now + allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously + if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value + was accidentally reused as the exit status. * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special variables. * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and @@ -8,15 +12,24 @@ the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in expressing intent. - * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was - requested but could not be provided. * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code. * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and non-simple arrays. * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to open coding of ARRAY-RANK. + * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was + requested but could not be provided. + * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser) + * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks + to Tobias Rittweiler) * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented. + * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost + (reported by Hubert Kauker) + * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the + same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more + efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to + Paul Khuong) * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen) * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could @@ -37,6 +50,9 @@ * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated. * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special. + * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read: + directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp + thread by blocking all signals and resignalling. changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27: * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate