X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b24dc759154d97961a28eff24afa59cdfe8209c9;hb=b5cb7e8676a8bb88e647ceaf5f2571943b960c05;hp=e4aeeb0f557f67d914a289ffa91ac64b92672da4;hpb=8ac6ab97a44925953f4f7c29341d365da3be33ae;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e4aeeb0..b24dc75 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,106 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.9.38: +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.42 + * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF + &co. + * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to + Faré Rideau) + * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several + error and warning messages which are often associated with package + conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai) + * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497, + thanks to Andrew Golding) + * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to + Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names, + breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable. + (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators + correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces + on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497, + lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise) + * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492, + thanks to Josh Elsasser) + * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers + without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387) + * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC. + (lp#544421) + * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as + initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105) + * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables + (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka) + * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM. + (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible + environments occurs. (lp#308951) + * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local + function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument. + (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames) + * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of + DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637) + * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods + when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41 + + * build changes + ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using + command-line argument --xc-host= instead of a positional + argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring) + ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line + argument --prefix=. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring) + * optimization: The default implementation of + COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work. + * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use + by multithreaded code. See documentation for details. + * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC. + * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden) + * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second + argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists. + (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2. + (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40: + * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is + cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to + COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS. + * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a + CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function + if it exists. + * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39: + * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897) + * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single + call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the + package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS). + * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64 + (lp#533470). + * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38: * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show the calling frame. * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out of order). + * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid + platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control + stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants). + * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems. + * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767 + now work on PPC UNICODE builds. + * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the + high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations, + this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic. + * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with + clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser) + * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh + Elsasser). + * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux. changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37: * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs