X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9d4f7a93d8cfb52e5f891be216868b629fe67cab;hb=2dbee6e782b54f8780933790d61a24cdb67b8d04;hp=fdb1acf15394fcd7e9844597940326fd8bbf5c1a;hpb=d8e47f8f2ccda542b1ab60b080ebed483ae14376;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fdb1acf..9d4f7a9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,91 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32: +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.35: + * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and + SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts + but work on type specifiers. + * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known + to name a type specifier. + * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type + specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as + second argument of TYPEP". + * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and + returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE. + * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of + dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY) + * new feature: MAKE-RANDOM-STATE has been extended to accept octet vectors, + (SIMPLE-ARRAY (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) (*)), and UNSIGNED-BYTE arguments in + addition to the ones documented in the language specification. Also, + (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will attempt to initialize the returned state + from the operating system's PRNG where possible. (Thanks to + Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116) + * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the + FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087) + * bug fix: Fix grammer and style issues for the docstrings of + printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad + bug lp#518696) + * bug fix: fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and + Bruce O'Neel. + * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice + in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the + future. (lp#512914) + * bug fix: a deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a + deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result + in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads. + * bug fix: backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated + before reaching the erring stack frame. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34: + * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument + is properly inlined when possible. + * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float + conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64. + * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient + code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64. + * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well + as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev; + launchpad bug lp#508485) + * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is + properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388) + * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE + no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc. + * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value + always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33: + * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default + on x86[-64] Linux. + * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most + builtin types. + * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN) + are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion. + * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(), + tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James) + * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE. + * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats: + ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format + has been improved. + ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format. + ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported. + * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings + in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by + Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455) + * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style + loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other + implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem + Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417) + * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by + Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698). + * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building + from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104) + * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when + pretty printing + * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by + Attila Lendvai) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32: * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent) * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on - x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug #453080) + x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080) * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself. * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of @@ -27,7 +110,7 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32: (: :replacement ) as an external format which will automatically substitute on encoding or decoding errors for streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug - #317072) + lp#317072) ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors, @@ -38,9 +121,9 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32: between #xd800 and #xdfff). ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug - #471689) + lp#471689) ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the - USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug #314939) + USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939) ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE restart on fd-stream decoding errors. ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the @@ -59,26 +142,26 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32: the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune - Nøstdal; launchpad bug #473699) + Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699) * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff) * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error. * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back. - (launchpad bug #460283) + (launchpad bug lp#460283) * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS. * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad - bug #396597) + bug lp#396597) * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists. - (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug #310132) + (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132) * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be - complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug #309129) + complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129) * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD - type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug #485972) + type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972) * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban - Hatchondo; launchpad bug #485019) + Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019) changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31: * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type