X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b2579e9ecc9ae9092a5ca1f110fb5535a0beee1e;hb=d48e55084636a84d1b54f1f7370fa98c55f3ec6e;hp=0b1ee325f4aa690f849329c878ce10140a7c307a;hpb=286cb407fcf618572b874ace57c119fe284d14c5;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0b1ee32..b2579e9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2330,6 +2330,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8: * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho Snellman) + * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less + needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman) * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend. * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: @@ -2354,7 +2356,88 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8: constitute a word. ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ", rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2. + ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number + less than 10 works correctly. + ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number + more than 10 works correctly. + ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not + the readtable currently in effect. +changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9: + * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel + running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry + E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work) + * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the + current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken + since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.) + * [placeholder for DX summary] + ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high + speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy. + * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger + chapter from the cmucl manual has been added. + * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from + sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in + the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive) + * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for + the test case to Dave Roberts) + * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill + pointers. (reported by Sean Ross) + * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical + values. (thanks to Zach Beane) + * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE ) for + greater than 32 handle EOF correctly. + * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is + correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old + values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola) + * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now + succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer) + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs. + ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks + to Bruno Haible) + +changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10: + * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle + improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible) + * fixed bug 313: source-transform for was erroneously + applied to a call of a value of a variable with name . + (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao) + * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that + subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola) + * on X86 fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL + can remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack. + * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it + easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* + to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola) + * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from + CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable. + * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE + is now consistent with (COMPLEX ); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX + MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno + Haible) + * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if + *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string + does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string + type. + * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve + function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola) + * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on + non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick) + * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC, + don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate + boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola) + * 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 + approximately 10%. + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs. + ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type. + ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude + more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report + and discussions) + planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x: * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles down, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and