X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b49d315af0ed261a40469619c8c2b082b197d26b;hb=4cf50b1896b25f5337e7c258b0b560da00d47993;hp=3625151a634e6bd3ea7a4ae4d23bf63ad6f00495;hpb=ce02ab2ecd9c6ae2e570abd8c93ebf3be55bbdad;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3625151..b49d315 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -682,25 +682,58 @@ changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10: as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11: +* incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration + is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was + listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that + its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly + specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it + out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work.. * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and half a dozen others elsewhere -* improved support for intersection types, fixing bug 12 (E.g., now - (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T.) -?? The :PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features +* fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again. + They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports + from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not + as flaky as they were. +* The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its + behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man + page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the + same circumstances that the man page talks about.) +* The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can handle many floating point and complex operations much less inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT without consing!) -?? unscrewed floating point infinities (bug 13) in order to support - :PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features +* The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE + and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and + SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN, + thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller. * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens) -* a new workaround to make the cross-compiler portable to CMU CL - again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN, thanks to Martin Atzmueller -* new fasl file format version number (because of changes in byte - code opcodes and in internal representation of (OR ..) types) +* A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross + ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been + fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches. +* fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when + it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes +* fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support + complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources. + (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time + conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.) +* improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12 + (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other + more obscure bugs as well +* some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical + parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller +* Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at + . + From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely + stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy + to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if + anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.) +* new fasl file format version number (because of changes in + internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new + support for (AND ..) types, among other things) planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x: * The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc. @@ -719,3 +752,8 @@ planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x: ANSI Common Lisp standard, may change to their ASCII symbolic names: #\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc. * INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND might increase, e.g. to 1000. +* MAYBE-INLINE will probably go away at some point, maybe 0.7.x, + maybe later, in favor of the ANSI-recommended idiom for making + a function optionally inline. +* FASL file extensions change to ".fasl", instead of the various + CPU-dependent values (".x86f" etc.) inherited from CMU CL.