0.9.6.58:

	* Remove a few obsolete entries from BUGS
        * Add a NEWS entry that got lost in the messed up 0.9.6.45
          commit

diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS
index 60107cb..c7e61d5 100644 (file)
--- a/BUGS
+++ b/BUGS
@@ -198,19 +198,6 @@ WORKAROUND:
   holding... * is not equivalent to T in many cases, such as 
     (VECTOR *) /= (VECTOR T).
 
-95:
-  The facility for dumping a running Lisp image to disk gets confused
-  when run without the PURIFY option, and creates an unnecessarily large
-  core file (apparently representing memory usage up to the previous
-  high-water mark). Moreover, when the file is loaded, it confuses the
-  GC, so that thereafter memory usage can never be reduced below that
-  level.
-
-  (As of 0.8.7.3 it's likely that the latter half of this bug is fixed.
-  The interaction between gencgc and the variables used by
-  save-lisp-and-die is still nonoptimal, though, so no respite from
-  big core files yet)
-
 98:
   In sbcl-0.6.11.41 (and in all earlier SBCL, and in CMU
   CL), out-of-line structure slot setters are horribly inefficient
@@ -1120,20 +1107,6 @@ WORKAROUND:
     #(1 2 ((SB-IMPL::|,|) + 2 2) 4)
   which probably isn't intentional.
 
-323: "REPLACE, BIT-BASH and large strings"
-  The transform for REPLACE on simple-base-strings uses BIT-BASH, which
-  at present has an upper limit in size.  Consequently, in sbcl-0.8.10
-    (defun foo ()
-      (declare (optimize speed (safety 1)))
-      (let ((x (make-string 140000000))
-            (y (make-string 140000000)))
-        (length (replace x y))))
-    (foo)
-  gives 
-    debugger invoked on a TYPE-ERROR in thread 2412:
-      The value 1120000000 is not of type (MOD 536870911).
-  (see also "more and better sequence transforms" sbcl-devel 2004-05-10)
-
 324: "STREAMs and :ELEMENT-TYPE with large bytesize"
   In theory, (open foo :element-type '(unsigned-byte <x>)) should work
   for all positive integral <x>.  At present, it only works for <x> up
@@ -1983,12 +1956,6 @@ WORKAROUND:
  #.SB-EXT:SINGLE/DOUBLE-FLOAT-POSITIVE-INFINITY. These tests have been
  disabled on Darwin for now.
 
-374: BIT-AND problem on ppc/darwin:
-  The BIT-AND test in bit-vector.impure-cload.lisp results in
-    fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 8356:
-    GC invariant lost, file "gc-common.c", line 605
-  on ppc/darwin. Test disabled for the duration.
-
 375: MISC.555
     (compile nil '(lambda (p1)
                    (declare (optimize (speed 1) (safety 2) (debug 2) (space 0))

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 66c6365..1f557d4 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
     on gencgc
   * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64 
     (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
+    floating point index variable or a negative step.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
   * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on

diff --git a/version.lisp-expr b/version.lisp-expr
index 71e7bc2..a855e7d 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".)
-"0.9.6.57"
+"0.9.6.58"