X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f052c31fda93b62946ec4ffa830e1de921775568;hb=65a29e8b22383bda1d4ac20796c9b56529c02a6e;hp=353fe716b0fa0870b0f0851638b9ab88a41b0d39;hpb=dd9f2ab664c9d6d7546d5f403bda5157fc4b960b;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 353fe71..f052c31 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,18 +1,85 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.48: - * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as source, - compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files. +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.49: + * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove + the offending handler. + * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure + copiers as well. + * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily + be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION* + and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for + the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments. + * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when + COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED. + * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been + optimized. (lp#555201) + * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors, + when (> SPEED SPACE). + * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large + functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206) + * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more + careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771) + * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental + backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27) + * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a + function with dynamic-extent &rest list. + * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT + boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots. + * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist. + (lp#795705, regression) + * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames. + * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings + are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237) + * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in + MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812) + * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg. + (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously. + (lp#308961) + * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic + functions with both optional and key argments. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48: + * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables + interrupts for its body. + * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as + source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files. * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE when a temporary file is used for compilation. - * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.2. - * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator - are more readable. + * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3. + * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are + more readable. * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output streams. - * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime - errors for type-errors detected at compile-time. + * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for + type-errors detected at compile-time. * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks. + * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their + spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this, + particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent + easier to use safely. + * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements: + ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported. + ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call. + * enhancement: --script improvements: + ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and + cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell + pipelines. + ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the + terminal even if one is available. + ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from + standard input. + * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp + strings to foreign memory. + * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to + a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics. + * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls + allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as + the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape. + (lp#504575) + * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster, + especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed + their identities. * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43) @@ -20,6 +87,12 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.48: from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character. * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734) + * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived + types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from + 1.0.43.57) + * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable. + (lp#771673) + * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed. changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47: * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five