X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9844abceda2b6c752790c78b1fbd5d7749d27097;hb=76874d05d623e0001cfcf23d2c74f78295ba6cee;hp=e8f809e53c6038a07216498bc06e8b34bd44947f;hpb=72f8804f1a2ea98cfccdd7972b299cc309c55279;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e8f809e..9844abc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2398,11 +2398,28 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9: to Bruno Haible) changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10: + * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C + structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than + as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This + has implications for memory management of client code + (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for + type safety (alien objects now have full types). * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS quality should be considered deprecated. + * install.sh now installs the user manual as well + * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in + the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the + beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is + under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by + IDEs. + * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname + designator as the defaults argument. + * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become + too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing + for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible) * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas Burdick) @@ -2461,6 +2478,12 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10: * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible) + * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION + have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported + instability in stack exhaustion detection. + * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and + MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now + printable. * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros so that each expands into only one top-level form in a :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by @@ -2488,6 +2511,67 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10: returning a known number of arguments greater than 63. ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position in local calls. + ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being + true. + ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE + objects. + ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always + print using #P"..." syntax. + +changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11: + * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides + optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP + SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation + mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization + is requested. + * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical + sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as + the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman) + * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by + third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation + string for information on the protocol. + * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X) + when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization + settings. + * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a + method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now + possible. + * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now + exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to + Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible) + * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent + even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves) + * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted + structure. + * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive + modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian + Downing) + * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot + move between its address being taken and the call to + interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition. + * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it + no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing + instances corresponding to C structs. + +changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12: + * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the + home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL. + The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards + compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as + an implementation-internal package. + * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the fine manual for details, + add :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp to + enable them. + * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures. + It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however. + * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type + designators and can hence be used with TYPEP. + * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error + signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by + TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez) + * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no + longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by + GET-MACRO-CHARACTER. planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x: * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles