From: Alastair Bridgewater <nyef@kana.lisphacker.com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 13:48:47 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: NEWS updates.
X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ff9d1fe33f936d40e329bedc8e2872fc2edf36a;p=sbcl.git

NEWS updates.

  * Forgot to add a NEWS update to my recent commit involving the
internal-error logic.

  * And clarify that only vectors of boxed items may be stack-
allocated on PPC.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fa8ce46..8fb5691 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
   * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
     the working directory of the spawned process.
     (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
-  * enhancement: vectors can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
+  * enhancement: boxed vectors (vectors of T or of FIXNUM) can now be
+    stack-allocated on PPC.
   * enhancement: "fixed objects" can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
   * enhancement: WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS no longer conses on PPC/GENCGC.
   * enhancement: (sb-introspect:find-definition-sources-by-name x :vop) now
@@ -20,6 +21,11 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
   * bug fix: Loading a core with a discontiguous dynamic space now correctly
     computes the amount of dynamic space used.
   * bug fix: disassembler missing ",8" on SHLD
+  * bug fix: backtracing through INTERNAL-ERROR signal handlers on systems
+    that provide an "invalid" stack frame link for the signal handler
+    itself now use the saved-fp-and-pc mechanism to pick up from the stack
+    frame in the interrupt (signal) context.  This is known to affect
+    threaded FreeBSD/x86-64.
   * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
   * optimization: faster and smaller INTEGER-LENGTH on fixnums on x86-64.
   * optimization: On x86-64, the number of multi-byte NOP instructions used