X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=dbd1513aacf55c13f61a12790586f634519eb3f7;hb=6c741e202637adec3fc830f0454cddd9438392b1;hp=c666ace3d12b132674eb231acaaa9ef4135d8934;hpb=65e947c7a90df88e0691e664f3387ccb35d390d9;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c666ace..dbd1513 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,87 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +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) + * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL + * 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 +95,37 @@ 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: 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 + * 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. + (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas) + * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions + like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning. + (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 + ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock + ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage + ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads + suspended for gc + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated + 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 + no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified. + ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4: * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package @@ -731,7 +842,7 @@ 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)