Douglas Crosher:
He continued to improve CMU CL after SBCL forked from it, creating
many patches which were directly applicable to SBCL. Notable examples
- include fixes for various compiler bugs, and a generalization
- of the type system's handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style
- (CONS FOO BAR) types.
+ include fixes for various compiler bugs, the implementation of
+ CL:DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO, and a generalization of the type system's
+ handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types.
Alexey Dejneka:
He has fixed many, many bugs. There's no single summary theme, but
it, like *BACKEND-FEATURES*). He's also contributed miscellaneous
bug fixes.
+Brian Spilsbury:
+ He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
+ stream operations.
+
Raymond Toy:
He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been
specification.)
changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
+ * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
+ Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
* SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
(thanks to Dan Barlow)
and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
Toy)
- * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
- Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
+ * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
+ fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
* The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
INFO database to support symbol macros.
* The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
<http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
- * Bugfix to GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR, now returning NIL for undefined
- dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejenka)
+ * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
+ dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
* Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
* USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL