X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fbb0734d0c0870dd531073a770f13751f281a543;hb=768798e7839d849017164154d0ab70ce975fe5e3;hp=8c3eecb5a7981ed84b4dd895bb4204636d62c28f;hpb=b7d70307b86d305c654f0a24f8a416b082f275a7;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8c3eecb..fbb0734 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,20 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54: +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.55: + * documentation: + ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.56 relative to sbcl-1.0.55: + * bug fix: fix copy-structure. When copying from stack to heap, garbage + could end up in the heap making GC unhappy. + (Thanks to James Knight, lp#911027) + * enhancements + ** SBCL can now be built using Clang. + ** ASDF has been updated 2.20. + * bug fix: compiler errors when weakening hairy integer types. (lp#913232) + * bug fix: don't complain about a too-hairy lexical environment for inlining + when the function has never been requested for inlining. (lp#963530) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.55 relative to sbcl-1.0.54: * enhancements to building SBCL using make.sh: ** --fancy can be specified to enable all supported feature enhancements. ** --with- and --without- can be used to specify @@ -7,10 +22,46 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54: ** --arch option can be used to specify the architecture to build for. (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not full-blows cross-compilation.) + * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax :: + which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the + whole form. + * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than + T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown) * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a null alien when malloc() fails. (lp#891268) + * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-UNREADABLY restart for PRINT-NOT-READABLE + conditions can be conveniently accessed through function with the same + name, analogously to CONTINUE. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:*SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* can be used to suppress errors + from the printer by type, causing an error marker to be printed instead. + (Thanks to Attila Lendvai) + * enhancement: BACKTRACE and DESCRIBE now bind *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T, and + generally behave better when errors occur during printing. + * enhancement: the test runner now takes a --report-skipped-tests argument + to report the individual tests skipped as well as the number of skipped + tests. + * enhancement: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined + function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on x86oids. + * enhancement: detected deadlocks no longer cause stderr to be spammed, and + deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner. + * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more + cases. + * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or + :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack + of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to Luís Oliveira, lp#901661) + * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other + instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64. + * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude + faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial.) + * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially + faster. (lp#902537) + * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can + be stack-allocated. (lp#902351) * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for floating point constants used in full calls. + * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to + single floats inline, except on x86 where this limitation is still + necessary. * bug fix: deadlock detection could report the same deadlock twice, for two different threads. Now a single deadlock is reported exactly once. * bug fix: interval-arithmetic division during type derivation did not @@ -28,6 +79,33 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54: * bug fix: bogus style-warnings for DEFMETHOD forms that both declared some required arguments ignored and performed assignments to others. (lp#898331) + * bug fix: *EVALUATOR-MODE* :COMPILE treated (LET () ...) identically + to (LOCALLY ...) leading to internally inconsistent toplevel-formness. + * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type. + * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an + unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243) + * bug fix: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined + function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on non-x86oids. + * bug fix: backtraces are no longer cut off at ("undefined function") when + called under certain circumstances (involving a caller-allocated stack + frame) on PPC. + * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM leaked a file-descriptor per call on non-Windows + systems. (regression since 1.0.53) + * bug fix: GC deadlocks from dladdr() on certain platforms. + * bug fix: broken standard streams no longer automatically cause recursive + errors on debugger entry. + * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size= argument to make.sh + (regression since 1.0.53) + * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with + an external entry point caused compiler-errors. + * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument + no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function. + * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to + subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312) + * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some + forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351) + * bug fix: some of the compile-time side-effects of DEFCLASS were not caught + by package locks. changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53: * minor incompatible changes: