1.0.18.29: documentation tweaks

 * Mention putative buildability on Win64 in NEWS.

 * Weak hash tables are supposed to work, don't say otherwise on the
   man-page.

 * Tweak README: mention INSTALL first. Manual lives in doc/manual
   nowadays, INSTALL tells how to build it.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f2b13fe..6c415ca 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
     presense of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
   * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
     arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
     presense of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
   * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
     arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.

+  * improvements to the Windows port:
+    ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
+       Win64. (thanks for John Connors)

   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
        to single-float coercions.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
        to single-float coercions.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 86deff3..09984f3 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,17 +2,18 @@ GENERAL INFORMATION
 
 Welcome to SBCL.
 
 
 Welcome to SBCL.
 

+If you'd like to install or build the system, see the "INSTALL" file.
+

 To find out more about who created the system, see the "CREDITS" file.
 
 If you'd like information about the legalities of copying the system,
 see the "COPYING" file.
 
 To find out more about who created the system, see the "CREDITS" file.
 
 If you'd like information about the legalities of copying the system,
 see the "COPYING" file.
 

-If you'd like to install or build the system, see the "INSTALL" file.
-

 If you'd like more information about using the system, see the man
 If you'd like more information about using the system, see the man

-page, "sbcl.1", or the user manual in the "doc/" subdirectory of the
-distribution. (The user manual is maintained as Texinfo in the source
-distribution; HTML version is available for download.)
+page, "sbcl.1", or the user manual in the "doc/manual" subdirectory of
+the distribution. (The user manual is maintained as Texinfo in the
+source distribution; HTML version is available for download, and
+"INSTALL" describes how to build the Texinfo version in HTML and PDF.)

 
 The system is a work in progress. See the "TODO" file in the source
 distribution for some highlights.
 
 The system is a work in progress. See the "TODO" file in the source
 distribution for some highlights.

diff --git a/doc/sbcl.1 b/doc/sbcl.1
index dc08b93..c8d8ab7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/sbcl.1
+++ b/doc/sbcl.1
@@ -107,9 +107,7 @@ Gray streams (a de-facto standard system of overloadable CLOS classes
 whose instances can be used wherever ordinary ANSI streams can be used)
 .TP 3
 \--
 whose instances can be used wherever ordinary ANSI streams can be used)
 .TP 3
 \--

-weak pointers and finalization (which have unfortunately
-suffered from at least some code rot, so that \fIe.g.\fR weak hash
-tables don't work)
+weak pointers and finalization

 .PP
 
 Fundamental system interface extensions are also provided:
 .PP
 
 Fundamental system interface extensions are also provided:

diff --git a/version.lisp-expr b/version.lisp-expr
index 3560cdf..6fae4d8 100644 (file)
--- a/version.lisp-expr
+++ b/version.lisp-expr
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 ;;; checkins which aren't released. (And occasionally for internal
 ;;; versions, especially for internal versions off the main CVS
 ;;; branch, it gets hairier, e.g. "0.pre7.14.flaky4.13".)
 ;;; checkins which aren't released. (And occasionally for internal
 ;;; versions, especially for internal versions off the main CVS
 ;;; branch, it gets hairier, e.g. "0.pre7.14.flaky4.13".)

-"1.0.18.28"
+"1.0.18.29"