X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a9379b97c5f2baaca88a723a8cfbae7ff6c50bd4;hb=6127c0b282bb6d7fa6d225ee91d0a601d9b82360;hp=cca4c0bab726fc86ed22422fc0842164654d7661;hpb=037c6feb124095c08fa964dd53d2660c3c7eb022;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cca4c0b..a9379b9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,108 @@ -;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24: + * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be + removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead. + * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of + DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler) + * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output + stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and + a writer, for instance, in a pipe. + * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant + arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect + their constant arguments. + * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy + (thanks to Luis Oliveira) + * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making + TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported + by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong) + * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now + computes the right offset for the memory copy. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23: + * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data + vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY. + * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard + readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler) + * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword + argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho) + * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling + has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman) + * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64. + * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster. + * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless + SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.) + * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks + to Thomas Burdick) + * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to + be thread safe. + * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by + SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna) + * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when + using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira) + * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER) + are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable + designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler) + * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable + designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to + Tobias Rittweiler) + * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and + FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and + FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP. + * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name + when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a + compile-time style-warning. + * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly + in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna) + * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate. + * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated + to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert) + * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default + REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring) + * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into + account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by + Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong) + * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a + method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization. + * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local + special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies. + * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to + non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL + have been elimited. + * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now + initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms, + and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using + DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms. + (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson) + * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support + element-type BASE-CHAR as well. + * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of + ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection + types. + * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh + Elsasser) + * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard + and Tiger. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22: + * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly + for the associated fast function is also produced. + * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can + report them. + * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more + efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require + special handling by the pretty printer. + * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies + now interact correctly with type declarations. + * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper + validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai) + * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly. + Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form + (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined. + * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien + functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly + when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser) + changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21: * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native @@ -49,6 +153,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21: Snellman) * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated after alien stack frames. + * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20: * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a @@ -260,7 +365,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15: * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION. * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances - as well. (thanks to Tobian Ritterweiler) + as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler) * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code on threaded platforms. * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ @@ -1104,7 +1209,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13: default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect the low-level debugger. * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor - from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed + from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback strategy.