Update NEWS

Minor SPARC and PPC fixes.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 60a328e..aa74d32 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.57:
     updates of CAS-able places (similar to Clojure's swap!).
   * enhancement: run-program no longer decodes and re-encodes environment when
     :environment argument is not provided. (lp#985904)
+  * enhancement: On SPARC, a limitation on the number of code constants
+    emittable by the compiler has been lifted, allowing certain long functions
+    to compiled and assembled which had previously been unsupported; fixes
+    cl-bench on this ISA (lp#1008996).
   * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with
     multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP.
   * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is
@@ -27,7 +31,9 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.57:
     method combinations. (lp#936513)
   * bug fix: run-program no longer unconditionally uses /tmp/ for temporary
     files. (lp#968837).
-  * bug fix: restor build on solaris/sparc. (lp#1008506)
+  * bug fix: restore build on solaris/sparc. (lp#1008506)
+  * bug fix: an issue with LDB in the PowerPC backend has been resolved;
+    this fixes an issue found with cl-postgres (thanks to Tomas Hlavaty).
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
   * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes: