X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f25fa38267564033cbb40140af00a39a083da697;hb=17532463fa19f2fc2aba53b65c32e200a27ccd6a;hp=4d647ab9f09af094780d08a67dfa9015ae23ba10;hpb=b9e94e326f79ab01e56cb437e424ce5ea489471f;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4d647ab..f25fa38 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,221 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- -changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16: +changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4: + * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name, + host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS + information anyway. + * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface + * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods + in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter) + * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been + documented as unsafe. + * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe + in multithreaded application code. + * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX + platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint) + * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single + line in a file is unlimited. + * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have + been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disbled. + * bug fix: GETHASH, PUTHASH, CLRHASH and REMHASH are now interrupt safe. + * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests and + should be considered non-experimental. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3: + * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS). + * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo + and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr + and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available. + As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these + platforms. + * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T) + don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed + as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid) + * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi) + * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster. + * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases. + * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop + variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported + by Eric Marsden) + * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type + such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error. + (reported by Andras Simon) + * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN + bugs remain on x86-64.) + * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with + funcallable instances. + * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the + compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2 + and 1.0.3). + * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required + by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden) + * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with + non-base strings as arguments + * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like + reader errors + * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in + backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2: + * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent) + * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX )) now + produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine + that (+ INDEX ) does not require a bounds check and FOO + has an element type at least 8 bits wide. + * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way + in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler + * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks + to Magnus Henoch) + * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD + (thanks to Jon Buller) + * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions + * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard + M Kreuter) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1: + * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on + x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature + to use. + * improvement: support for GBK external format. + (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe)) + * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed + over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher + * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to + Richard Kreuter) + * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command + * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can + be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams + (thanks to Eric Marsden) + * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX + (thanks to Richard Kreuter) + * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with + a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly + * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE + for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa. + (thanks to Tony Martinez) + * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only + evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid) + * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING + works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte) + * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags + (thanks to Stephen Wilson) + * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson) + * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp + stack frames from alien callbacks. + * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai) + * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use + 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse) + * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0: + * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading. + * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information + abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands) + and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code + compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the + sb-introspect contrib. + * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of + these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if + a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental + and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL + users and the general community) + * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on + x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8 + * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex". + * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly + (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) + * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method + defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using + CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza) + * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through + SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza) + * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment + variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde) + * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists + signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG. + * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support. + * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks + to Marco Monteiro) + * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST + for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury) + * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time, + proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function + (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown) + * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions + are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been + declared. + * improvements to the Windows port: + ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks + to Alastair Bridgewater) + ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints) + work on Windows. + ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien + callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + +changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18: + * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86. + (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used + to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup. + * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in + core, and restored on startup. + * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since + startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME. + * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple + threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run. + * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code + compiled with (SAFETY 3) + * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to + NIIMI Satoshi) + * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2) + (thanks to Zach Beane) + * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX + on Linux/x86 + * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format. + (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi) + * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to + Joshua Ross) + * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES + declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck) + * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already + dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck) + * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a + fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to + Lars Brinkhoff) + * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works. + * bug fix: single stepping on PPC. + * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally + manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier + for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM") + * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME + (reported by Josip Gracin) + * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with + incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer) + * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info + (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman) + * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster + and don't cause extra consing + * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors + whose elements types have been declared. + * Improvements to SB-SPROF: + ** Support for allocation profiling + ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs + * Improvements to the Windows port: + ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly. + ** stack exhaustion detection works partially. + ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME. + ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child + process. + ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly. + ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS. + ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January + 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable). + ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work. + +changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17: + * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3), + cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to + Max-Gerd Retzlaff) * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds. * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov) @@ -8,6 +224,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16: * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS code more stable against memory faults. + * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an + asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto) * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality of 2 or higher.