X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=daeeb21e09ac2fe9fde0c2b3216e551dedd75928;hb=d7f6139a91d7d9b0667a597584ae306d958bb2f4;hp=b49d315af0ed261a40469619c8c2b082b197d26b;hpb=456fe4b62b1de44fdfaab4410957dd18495beb14;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b49d315..daeeb21 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -735,25 +735,31 @@ changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11: internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new support for (AND ..) types, among other things) +changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12: +* a port to the Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow +* better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to + Martin Atzmueller and Pierre Mai + planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x: * The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]" sequence. (I was motivated - to do this when ILISP and SBCL got into arguments which left me - deeply nested in the debugger.) -* When the profiling interface settles down, it might impact TRACE. - They both encapsulate functions, and it's not clear yet how - e.g. UNPROFILE will interact with TRACE and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't - matter, though, unless you are using profiling. If you never - profile anything, TRACE should continue to behave as before.) + to do this when squabbles between ILISP and SBCL left me + very deeply nested in the debugger.) * The fasl file extension may change, perhaps to ".fasl". * The default output representation for unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike e.g. #\Newline, don't have names defined in the 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. +* FASL file extensions change to ".fasl", instead of the various + CPU-dependent values (".x86f", ".axpf", etc.) inherited from CMU CL. * 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. +* When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe + later, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and + it's not clear yet how e.g. UNPROFILE will interact with TRACE + and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't matter, though, unless you are + using profiling. If you never profile anything, TRACE should + continue to behave as before.)