X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d69b943dcc3570929db78be20c5231165d72f5ab;hb=44c608efa2e73df1c1ab7e259db405b9060c64a1;hp=0e1e389a964ad9c704aee7c59297bbf215fb6d13;hpb=8977ab898eab890a11eb9b4bab72c42561f0dc22;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0e1e389..d69b943 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,211 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11: + * Enhancements for sbcl running on the Windows operating system: + ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file + locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings" + directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) + ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas) + ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey) + ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to + inhibit loading the corresponding init files + * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was + immediately available from the stream + * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR + were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros) + * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer + when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported + by Utz-Uwe Haus) + * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types: + allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and + (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for + structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary + King) + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when + the method is not one of the generic functions' methods. + ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to + structure accessors. + ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C + directive. + +changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10: + * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including + MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel. + * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system + (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR). + * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is + exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*. + * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and + SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of + this change is to make it easier to distribute + location-independent binaries. + * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have + slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by + Pascal Costanza) + * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in + (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them + via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO). + * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the + case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered + to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented, + particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to + Alastair Bridgewater) + * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol + values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller. + (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of + more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized + functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE. + * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86 + * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple + calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT + * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by + SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO + (thanks to James Knight) + * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required + by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall) + +changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9: + * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can + be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one + executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL + platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi) + * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now + the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The + old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option. + (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy) + * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its + contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic + links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly + in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME. + * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is + markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector. + * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to + certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King) + * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert + character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev) + * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an + error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by + Glenn Ehrlich) + * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an + applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on + INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg + no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid) + * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots + added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean + Bresson) + * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp + sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the + 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to + manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL. + (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and + many others over the years) + * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if + the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative. + (thanks to Peter van Eynde) + +changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8: + * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating + system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including + callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte) + * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul + Dietz) + * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M + Kreuter) + * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64 + * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and + grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS. + * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname. + (reported by tomppa on #lisp) + * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as + required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE. + (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns) + * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms + * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL + * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common + immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64 + * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + +changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7: + * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF + GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting + the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified + by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF + GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise. + * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable + value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used + * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with + odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner) + * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as + expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr) + * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot + definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals. + * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol. + * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive, + returning the number of octets which would be written to the + file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber) + * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format + arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David + Lichteblau) + * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS + platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma) + * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms + * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for + index variables in LOOP + * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64 + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations + that don't have a docstring + +changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6: + * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF + GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and + therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at + least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation, + however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls + REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP. + * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI + 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. + COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION + argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal + Costanza's "Closer" project) + * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls + COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as + specified by AMOP. + * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of + STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow. + (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others) + * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic + functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible + and Pascal Costanza) + * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to + DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by + Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp) + * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some + circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander) + * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname + merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*. + * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment. + (thanks to Cyrus Harmon) + * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at + disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference + (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn) + * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format. + (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of + :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER + * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64 + * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput) + on gencgc + * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64 + (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a + floating point index variable or a negative step. + changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5: * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality(). @@ -12,9 +219,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5: on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation. * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms. - * bug fix: COMPUTE-RESTARTS returns all active restarts, including those - with :TEST, when called without a condition. (reported by Helmut Eller for - CMUCL) + * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given + a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL) * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec. @@ -24,7 +230,11 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5: (thanks to Kevin Reid) * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon) + * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM + and dump core on SIGQUIT * threads + ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials + from their parents (see manual) ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed @@ -37,7 +247,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5: CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other. * GENCGC - ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are + ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified. ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before @@ -756,7 +966,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15: (thanks to Richard Kreuter) * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals - bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau) + bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau) * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and Bruno Haible)