X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f588a4b4ca77eab181c14c602aafe99ce68723b5;hb=6bbc22725d3bf663726ed9adca544e39316364a6;hp=e3a751619ae199ec2784a948ae5c73425fbd1155;hpb=65dc8d30b1f8389faa549af10e72b9e677bec5d3;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e3a7516..f588a4b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,18 +1,53 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15: + * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning + NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14. + * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX. + changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14: * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be obscured by interrupt handling frames. + * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is + now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now + traces SETF-functions as well. + * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP. + * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even + when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL. + * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes + weakness if any. + * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments + is now more efficient. + * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X + 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable. + * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the + full address of the object, and none of the tag bits. + * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer + control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean) + * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED + keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE. + * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP. * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe. * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as well. + * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with + non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER + methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic) + * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer + create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or + obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner) + * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had + suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0. + * improvements to the Windows port: + ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of + using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki) changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13: * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits (see documentation for details.) * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser) * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional - (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures . + (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures. * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by Vincent Arkesteijn) @@ -41,7 +76,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12: been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who needs that search behavior (see the manual). * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type - checks has changed: now type checks are weakened on if SAFETY < 2 + checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2 and SAFETY < SPEED. * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously, @@ -83,7 +118,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11: concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also: SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P. - * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitue faster + * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE). * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists. * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust. @@ -197,7 +232,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8: could cause buffer-overflows. * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the - Slime debugger higlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source + Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source command was used. * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover annotations. @@ -213,7 +248,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7: * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms. * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY - allows assining a global minimum value to optimization qualities + allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities (overriding proclamations and declarations). * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86 and x86-64. @@ -371,7 +406,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4: * 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. + been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled. * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed. * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type @@ -485,7 +520,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1: 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) + about 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.