X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d1f18ab27533fd47e71c49bdb9b50a07a106e040;hb=95f17ca63742f8c164309716b35bc25545a849a6;hp=c79ccf8146a2a1c4ab020173251e09295aa5005d;hpb=fe19212267bef96fedb712ebb43abc91631aea18;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c79ccf8..d1f18ab 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,65 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- + * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying + data vector of an multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY. + * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard + readtable modification is attempted. + * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64. + * 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) + +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 + namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared + object loading function as-it. + * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes + effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load + options. + * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports + shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by + Kevin Reid) + * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of + --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core, + causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation + for details. (thanks to Zach Beane) * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear. * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and @@ -8,7 +68,8 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21: Badichi) * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with - SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE. + SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo + the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call. * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean) @@ -20,6 +81,21 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21: was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema) * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on pathnames without a directory. + * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable + references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did + not signal an error. + * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with + (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name. + * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't + update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly. + * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions + are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven) + * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause + PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho + 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 @@ -231,7 +307,7 @@ 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