X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f62890398a77f26266bccccd112c2d4653085ce4;hb=18811631b81a9e7d4270c44896483199f3b7c7ac;hp=df3811575f13d13ee828ab4955f97a046084f229;hpb=e14f0127e999b95d759aec2195534bb5806b7152;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index df38115..f628903 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2246,6 +2246,13 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7: As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened exists; this may have an impact on existing code. + * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting + signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and + Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of + the error) + * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on + Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs). + (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook) * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn) @@ -2259,6 +2266,11 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7: recursive manner. * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now recognized as being TYPEP their class. + * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected. + (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn) + * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically + large number of multiple values being bound was not being + performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend. * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded. @@ -2298,6 +2310,92 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7: examining the synonym. ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now work as specified. + ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with + element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32). + +changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8: + * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and + *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more + general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This + should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control + variables and then find you want different bindings in the + debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.) + * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building + (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own + assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola) + * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full + WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is + more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined + behaviour. + * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one + that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho + Snellman) + * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less + needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman) + * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular + (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend. + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if + required. + ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays. + ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END. + ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with + element-type NIL. + ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream + argument. + ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to + 2, 8 or 16. + ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to + their output stream on EOF from read. + ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which + have been read to end-of-file. + ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on + STRING-STREAMS. + ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the + description of determination of which consecutive characters + constitute a word. + ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ", + rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2. + ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number + less than 10 works correctly. + ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number + more than 10 works correctly. + ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not + the readtable currently in effect. + +changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9: + * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel + running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry + E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work) + * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the + current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken + since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.) + * [placeholder for DX summary] + ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high + speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy. + * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger + chapter from the cmucl manual has been added. + * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from + sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in + the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive) + * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for + the test case to Dave Roberts) + * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill + pointers. (reported by Sean Ross) + * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical + values. (thanks to Zach Beane) + * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE ) for + greater than 32 handle EOF correctly. + * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is + correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old + values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola) + * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now + succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer) + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs. + ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks + to Bruno Haible) planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x: * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles