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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.1.14:
3 * improvement: support for "Mac Roman" external format.
4 * new feature: the iterative spilling/coloring register allocator developed
5 by Alexandra Barchunova during Google Summer of Code 2013 is now merged
6 in. By default, it only activates for functions that optimize with
7 (speed 3) and (> speed compilation-speed), but setting
8 sb-regalloc:*register-allocation-method* to :iterative forces its
9 execution. The previous behaviour can be obtained by instead setting that
10 variable to :greedy. Thanks again to Google for their support, and, more
11 crucially, to Alexandra Barchunova for her hard work.
12 * optimization: make-array with known element-type and unkown dimensions is
14 * enhancement: sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die on Windows now accepts
15 :application-type argument, which can be :console or :gui. :gui allows
16 having GUI applications without an automatically appearing console window.
17 * bug fix: Windows applications without the console window no longer misbehave.
18 (patch by Wilfredo Velazquez, lp#1256034).
19 * bug fix: modular arithmetic optimizations do not stumble on dead branches
20 with bad constants. (reported by Douglas Katzman)
21 * bug fix: CLISP can be used again as a cross-compilation host.
22 (Thanks to Vasily Postnicov, lp#1261451)
24 changes in sbcl-1.1.14 relative to sbcl-1.1.13:
25 * optimization: complicated TYPEP tests are less opaque to the type
26 propagation pass. (lp#1229340)
27 * optimization: [N]BUTLAST perform a single pass over the list. (lp#1245697)
28 * optimization: EQUALP on structures with raw slots (double-float/complex)
29 no longer conses and is faster.
30 * optimization: RESTART-CASE expands to more compact code.
31 Thanks to Jan Moringen. (lp#1249055)
32 * enhancement: Top-level defmethod without defgeneric no longer causes
33 undefined-function warnings in subsequent forms. (lp#503095)
34 * enhancement: Better error messages for system errors on Windows.
35 * enhancement: run-sbcl.sh is usefully handled by rlwrap. Thanks to William
37 * enhancement: new function SB-EXT:ASSERT-VERSION->= accepts a version
38 specification (multiple integer arguments) and signals a continuable error
39 if the current SBCL version is lower (older) than the specification.
41 * enhancement: better ARRAY-RANK result derivation. (lp#1252108)
42 * bug fix: EQUALP now compares correctly structures with raw slots larger
44 * bug fix: contribs couldn't be built on Windows with MinGW.
45 * bug fix: Better pathname handling on Windows. (lp#922117)
46 * bug fix: OPEN reports a more meaningful error when an existing file is
47 opened for output with :if-exists :new-version. Thanks to Philip
48 Munksgaard. (lp#455381)
49 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCTs with NIL as a slot name no longer cause strange
50 CLOS-related errors. (lp#633911)
51 * bug fix: GC deadlocks caused by concurrent consing on Windows.
53 changes in sbcl-1.1.13 relative to sbcl-1.1.12:
54 * optimization: better distribution of SXHASH over small conses of related
56 * other improvements to SXHASH:
57 ** use the whole of the positive-fixnum range for SXHASH of fixnums
58 * enhancement: The error message when calling an undefined alien function
59 includes the name of the function on x86-64.
60 * enhancement: sb-ext:run-program now supports :environment on Windows.
61 * enhancement: ASDF is no longer required to load contribs at runtime.
63 * enhancement: when called with a symbol, FIND-RESTART no longer calls
64 COMPUTE-RESTARTS, making it faster and cons less (lp#769615)
65 * enhancement: FIND-RESTART and COMPUTE-RESTARTS handle huge restart
66 clusters better in some cases
67 * enhancement: SOME/ANY/other quantification higher-order functions no
68 longer cons. (lp#1070635)
69 * bug fix: forward references to classes in fasls can now be loaded.
71 * bug fix: don't warn on a interpreted->compiled function redefinition
72 from the same location. (patch by Douglas Katzman, lp#1042405)
73 * bug fix: Create vectors of proper internal length when reading literal
74 vectors from FASLs. (Reported by Jan Moringen)
75 * bug fix: COMPILE can now successfully compile setf functions.
76 (Reported by Douglas Katzman)
77 * bug fix: run-program performs more correct escaping of arguments on
79 * bug fix: function-lambda-expression on generic functions returns the
81 * bug fix: (the [type] [constant]) now warns when [constant] matches
82 [type] except for the number of values. (Reported by Nathan Trapuzzano
84 * bug fix: signal errors in required cases of slot-definition initialization
86 * bug fix: run-sbcl.sh works better in the presence of symlinks on OS X.
87 (thanks to Stelian Ionescu, lp#1242643)
88 * bug fix: when given a restart object, FIND-RESTART checks whether the
89 restart is active and, when a condition is supplied, whether the restart
90 is associated to a different condition (lp#774410)
92 changes in sbcl-1.1.12 relative to sbcl-1.1.11:
93 * enhancement: Add sb-bsd-sockets:socket-shutdown, for calling
94 shutdown(3). (thanks to Jan Moringen, lp#1207483)
95 * enhancement: document extensible sequences. (thanks to Jan Moringen,
97 * optimization: EQUAL and EQUALP transforms are smarter.
98 (thanks to Elias Martenson, lp#1220084)
99 * optimization: CHAR-EQUAL is faster for constant and base-char arguments.
100 * bug fix: probe-file now can access symlinks to pipes and sockets in
101 /proc/pid/fd on Linux. (reported by Eric Schulte)
102 * bug fix: SBCL can now be built on Solaris x86-64.
103 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions do not persist on Solaris anymore.
104 * bug fix: (setf . a) is pprinted correctly (reported by Douglas Katzman).
105 * bug fix: handle compiler-error in LOAD when it's not run from inside EVAL.
107 * bug fix: SB-GMP:MPZ-POW no longer segfaults given a non-bignum base.
108 (thanks to Stephan Frank)
109 * bug fix: space allocation of result bignums in SB-GMP is more accurate.
110 (thanks to Stephan Frank, lp#1206191)
111 * bug fix: sb-safepoint can now reliably handle signal interruptions of
112 foreign code. (lp#1133018)
113 * bug fix: the compiler-macro for MAKE-INSTANCE when emitting "fallback"
114 constructors no longer fails to merge actual and default initargs
115 (thanks to Jan Moringen, lp#1179858)
116 * bug fix: the compiler-macro for MAKE-INSTANCE when emitting "fallback"
117 constructors handles non-KEYWORD initialization arguments more correctly.
118 * bug fix: loading the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contributed module no longer
119 clobbers FILE-NAMESTRING. (thanks to Anton Kovalenko, lp#884603)
120 * bug fix: class definitions with CPLs inconsistent with their metaclasses
121 are less likely to destroy the object system's integrity. (lp#309076)
122 * bug fix: restart clause parsing in RESTART-CASE is more in line with the
123 standard. (lp#1203585, thanks to Jan Moringen)
124 * bug fix: silence a note from RESTART-CASE under high-SPEED optimization
125 settings. (lp#1023721)
126 * bug fix: getting the order of arguments to
127 SB-MOP:SET-FUNCALLABLE-INSTANCE-FUNCTION wrong produces a sensible error
128 rather than a failed AVER. (reported by Paul Nathan)
129 * bug fix: Parsing of &optional/&key/&rest arguments now never overwrites
130 arguments during copying on x86 and x86-64; it may still happen on other
131 platforms when there are more fixed arguments than stack slots.
132 (reported by Jan Moringen)
134 changes in sbcl-1.1.11 relative to sbcl-1.1.10:
135 * enhancement: support building the manual under texinfo version 5.
137 * enhancement: Windows builds no longer display the "Kitten of Death" message.
138 A warning is instead appended to the regular banner, and may be muted with
139 --noinform. (lp#728247)
140 * enhancement: support building under new linker handling of syscalls under
141 NetBSD. (thanks to Robert Swindells)
142 * bug fix: undefined function errors are now properly reported on PPC and MIPS.
143 (regression since 1.1.9)
144 * bug fix: (funcall (function X junk)) didn't causes an error when X had a
145 compiler macro. (thanks to Douglas Katzman).
146 * bug fix: signal a warning when defining a setf-function when a
147 setf-expander is already present. (thanks to Douglas Katzman).
148 * bug fix: improved threading on PPC.
149 * bug fix: ROOM works again on Windows. (lp#1206456)
150 * bug fix: Streams were flushed even when there was one byte still left in
151 the buffer. (lp#910213)
152 * bug fix: OPEN handles correctly when :if-exists and :if-does-not-exist are
153 either NIL or :ERROR. (reported by Jan Moringen)
155 changes in sbcl-1.1.10 relative to sbcl-1.1.9:
156 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 3.0.2.
157 * optimization: stack frames are packed more efficiently on x86oids, which
158 ought to reduce the frequency of Methuselahn conservative references (it
159 certainly helps with gc.impure.lisp / BUG-936304 on x86).
160 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, integer negation forms like (- x) are now
161 recognized in modular arithmetic contexts, and compile to native negate,
162 rather than going through bignums only to keep the low bits.
163 * bug fix: Compiling potential modularic arithmetic forms does not cause type
164 errors when some integer types lack lower or upper bounds. (lp#1199127)
165 * bug fix: Non-trivial modular arithmetic forms are always cut to the right
166 bitwidth before being used in a non-modular context. (lp#1199428)
167 * bug fix: Multiple catch/unwind blocks in a single function are now
168 allocated in the right stack order on win32. (lp#1072739)
170 changes in sbcl-1.1.9 relative to sbcl-1.1.8:
171 * new feature: the contrib SB-GMP links with libgmp at runtime to speed
172 up arithmetic on bignums and ratios. (contributed by Stephan Frank)
173 * enhancement: disassemble now annotates some previously missing static
174 functions, like LENGTH.
175 * enhancement: clean.sh now also cleans doc/internals.
176 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-SYMBOL-WITH-PREFIX can be used within ~// to
177 print a symbol with a package prefix.
178 * enhancement: The debugger and backtracing are more robust against buggy
179 PRINT-OBJECT methods.
180 * optimization: calls to static functions on x86-64 use less instructions.
181 * optimization: compute encode-universal-time at compile time when possible.
182 * optimization: when referencing internal functions as #'x, don't go through
183 an indirect fdefn structure.
184 * optimization: SLEEP doesn't cons on non-immediate floats and on ratios.
185 * optimization: (mod fixnum) type-checks are performed using one unsigned
186 comparison, instead of two.
187 * optimization: enable more modular arithmetic transforms in the presence of
189 * optimization: bitwise OR forms can now trigger modular arithmetic as well,
190 when the result is known to be negative.
191 * optimization: recognize more cases of useless LOGAND/LOGIOR with constants.
192 * optimization: comparisons between rationals and constant floats or between
193 integers and constant ratios are now converted to rationals/integers at
195 * optimization: Smaller and faster DOUBLE-FLOAT-LOW-BITS on x86-64.
196 * bug fix: problems with NCONC type derivation (reported by Jerry James).
197 * bug fix: EXPT type derivation no longer constructs bogus floating-point
198 types. (reported by Vsevolod Dyomkin)
199 * bug fix: sb-bsd-sockets has correct declaration of the canonname field of
200 addrinfo. (lp#1187041, patch by Jerry James)
201 * bug fix: uninitialized type-error conditions can now be printed.
203 * bug fix: tests for sb-bsd-sockets no longer use a predefined port for
204 listening, allowing several tests to run in parallel.
205 * bug fix: during disassembly to *COMPILER-TRACE-OUTPUT* instruction
206 prefixes as used on x86 and x86-64 no longer sometimes print incorrectly.
208 * bug fix: Specialised SIMD-PACK types can be negated.
209 * bug fix: Modular arithmetic is more robust. (incidentally fixes another bug
210 reported by Eric Marsden)
211 * bug fix: FP return values from foreign calls are always rounded to single
212 or double float precision on x87.
213 * bug fix: Known-safe vector access on x86oids should not fail spuriously
214 when the index is of the form (+ x constant-positive-integer).
215 * bug fix: Remove GPL-licensed files from source distribution. (lp#1185668)
216 * bug fix: backtrace printer no longer tries to create very large lists when
217 the arg-count register is clobberred by other code. (lp#1192929)
218 * bug fix: x86 should never signal an FP exception while boxing an FP value,
219 a situation that lands us into ldb.
221 changes in sbcl-1.1.8 relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
222 * notice: The implementation of MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of
223 ROOM, plus a few SB-INTROSPECT functions) has been completely
224 rewritten; it may now exhibit different bugs than before.
225 * new feature: minimal runtime/compiler intrastructure support for SSE
226 SIMD values, as SB-EXT:SIMD-PACK. Enabled on x86-64 via the build-time
227 feature :sb-simd-pack. This should enable intrinsics extensions as
228 libraries, without patching SBCL itself. Thanks to Alexander Gavrilov
229 for maintaining a branch for so long.
230 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
231 the working directory of the spawned process.
232 (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
233 * enhancement: boxed vectors (vectors of T or of FIXNUM) can now be
234 stack-allocated on PPC.
235 * enhancement: "fixed objects" can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
236 * enhancement: WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS no longer conses on PPC/GENCGC.
237 * enhancement: (sb-introspect:find-definition-sources-by-name x :vop) now
238 also returns VOPs which do not translate any functions, and finds
239 defoptimizer types ir2convert and stack-allocate-result.
240 * enhancement: better type derivation for APPEND, NCONC, LIST.
242 * enhancement: MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of ROOM) now walks the
243 heap in a manner similar to the GC rather than its previous ad-hoc
244 scheme, and is therefore no less and possibly more accurate.
245 * fixes and enhancements related to Unicode:
246 ** the character database information has been updated to Unicode 6.2;
247 ** support for canonical and compatibility decomposition of characters has
248 been added, along with support for primary composition;
249 ** support for Unicode normalization forms of strings (NFC, NFKC, NFD and
250 NFKD) has been included;
251 ** querying the character database for code points not defined by Unicode
252 gives less wrong answers (lp#1178038, reported by Ken Harris)
253 * enhancement: print intermediate evaluation results for some ASSERTed
254 expressions. (lp#789497) (patch by Alexandra Barchunova)
255 * enhancement: x86-64 disassemblies are annotated with unboxed constant
256 values when there are references to (RIP-relative) unboxed constants.
257 * bug fix: type derivation for LOG{AND,IOR,XOR} scales linearly instead
258 of quadratically with the size of the input in the worst case.
260 * bug fix: handle errors when initializing *default-pathname-defaults*,
261 sb-ext:*runtime-pathname*, sb-ext:*posix-argv* on startup, like character
262 decoding errors, or directories being deleted.
263 * bug fix: Loading a core with a discontiguous dynamic space now correctly
264 computes the amount of dynamic space used.
265 * bug fix: disassembler missing ",8" on SHLD
266 * bug fix: backtracing through INTERNAL-ERROR signal handlers on systems
267 that provide an "invalid" stack frame link for the signal handler
268 itself now use the saved-fp-and-pc mechanism to pick up from the stack
269 frame in the interrupt (signal) context. This is known to affect
270 threaded FreeBSD/x86-64.
271 * bug fix: some LOOP statements couldn't be compiled.
273 * bug fix: sb-sequence:dosequence works on literal vectors.
274 * bug fix: errors in generic arithmetic show the assembly routine's
275 caller on x86 and x86-64. (lp#800343)
276 * bug fix: Compile-time type errors should never result in COMPILE-FILE
278 * bug fix: Known bad local calls do not cause strange failures when
279 emitting or dumping code. (lp#504121)
280 * bug fix: Multiply-inlined structure constructor don't cause IR2-time
281 codegen errors: type checks are inserted as necessary. (lp#1177703)
282 * bug fix: Unsigned modular arithmetic is correctly converted into signed
283 modular arithemtic (mostly to exploit fixnum-width VOPs). (lp#1026634)
284 * bug fix: a combination of inlined local function with &optional and
285 recursion no longer causes undescriptive compiler errors. (lp#1180992)
286 * bug fix: sub-word BOOLEAN alien types now disregard higher order bits
287 when testing for non-zero-ness.
288 * bug fix: (CONCATENATE 'null ...) no longer fails for generic sequences.
290 * bug fix: Type mismatch for the value of conditional expressions are
291 correctly reported when detected at compile-time, instead of complaining
292 about a constant NIL (similar for non-EQ-comparable catch tags).
293 * bug fix: Referring to INLINE global functions as values should not result
294 in a compilation failure. (lp#1035721)
295 * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
296 * optimization: faster and smaller INTEGER-LENGTH on fixnums on x86-64.
297 * optimization: On x86-64, the number of multi-byte NOP instructions used
298 for code alignment is now always minimal.
299 * optimization: On 64-bit targets, the compiler generates much faster
300 code for type checks for types known at compile time that are smaller
301 than (SIGNED-BYTE 64) or (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) and larger than FIXNUM, and
302 their COMPLEX variants.
303 * optimization: On x86 targets, more uses of ALIEN-FUNCALL during cross
304 compilation now inline the INVOKE-WITH-SAVED-FP-AND-PC dance.
305 * optimization: ROOM no longer conses so egregiously on non-x86oid
307 * optimization: associative bitwise operations reassociate patterns like
308 (f (f x k1) k2) to expose (f x (f k1 k2)). Same for + and * of
310 * optimization: quasiquote expressions now perform more constant folding,
311 instead of consing equal lists at runtime. (lp#1026439)
312 * optimization: local call analysis of inlined higher-order function
313 should converge more quickly, resulting in better code for complex
315 * optimization: On x86-64, medium (word-sized but wider than 32 bits)
316 integer constants are handled more cleverly, especially when they
317 can be represented as sign-extended (signed-byte 32). (Based on a
318 patch by Douglas Katzman)
319 * optimization: IF/IF conversion should reliably result in sane code
320 when (some of) the results of the inner IF are always false or
322 * optimization: On x86oids, variable right shifts of machine words are
323 compiled into straight SAR/SHR, instead of going through the generic
326 changes in sbcl-1.1.7 relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
327 * enhancement: TRACE :PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued forms.
329 * bug fix: :allocation slot option works for condition slots
331 * bug fix: redefining conditions does not lead to multiple evaluations of
332 hairy slot initfunctions anymore (lp#1164969)
333 * bug fix: CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS now works for condition classes
335 * bug fix: function constants now work as initforms and default initarg
336 values of conditions (lp#539517)
337 * bug fix: svref/(setf svref) on symbol macros don't crash the compiler
338 anymore. (Minimal test case provided by James M. Lawrence on sbcl-devel)
339 * bug fix: no more bogus ## references when pretty printing backquoted
340 forms with non-trivial structure sharing. (lp#1161218)
341 * bug fix: Don't signal an error on (setf (documentation nil 'function)
342 "doc"). Signal a style-warning instead when trying to set documentation
343 of NIL for all other documentation types. (Reported by Zach
344 Beane; regression since 2e52fa05.)
345 * bug fix: modular arithmetic involving large constants and conditionals
346 should no longer result in spurious dead code elimination. (Reported by
348 * bug fix: our mach exception handler can seemingly called very early in
349 the program execution process on OS X 10.8.0. Try and handle that case
350 robustly, without potentially leaking mach ports too much.
351 * optimization: LOGBITP and LOGTEST optimizations from x86 ported to x86_64.
353 changes in sbcl-1.1.6 relative to sbcl-1.1.5:
354 * enhancement: the continuable error when defknown-ing over extant
355 fndb entries can be ignored by passing :overwrite-fndb-silently t
356 as a keyword argument to sb-c:defknown (after attributes). Useful
357 to allow defknown to be re-loaded. Use with :allow-other-keys t
358 for backward compatibility.
359 * optimization: compiler is much faster in compiling SVREF and (SETF SVREF)
361 * bug fix: Prevent a make-array transform from modifying source forms
362 causing problems for inlined code. Thanks to Bart Botta.
363 (regression since 1.0.42.11-bis)
364 * bug fix: clear-output calls the correct gray stream routine,
365 sb-gray:stream-clear-output. (lp#1153257)
366 * bug fix: an error is signalled for an invalid format modifier: ~<~@>.
368 * bug fix: Better error messages for package operations (lp#1154776)
369 * bug fix: delete-package on a nonexistent package should signal a cerror.
370 (regression since 1.0.37.44).
371 * bug fix: accessing &MORE (stack allocated &REST) arguments checks bounds.
372 (lp#1154946, lp#1072112)
373 * bug fix: compiling make-array no longer signals an error when the
374 element-type is an uknown type, a warning is issued instead.
375 Thanks to James Kalenius (lp#1156095)
376 * bug fix: SEARCH on generic (non-VECTOR non-LIST) sequence types no longer
377 produces wrong results for some inputs. (Thanks to Jan Moringen.)
380 changes in sbcl-1.1.5 relative to sbcl-1.1.4:
381 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING no longer loops
383 * new feature: package local nicknames. See manual for details.
384 * new feature: SB-EXT:MAP-DIRECTORY provides a powerful interface for
385 directory traversal: it is the backend used by SBCL for CL:DIRECTORY.
386 * enhancement: easier to use restarts for resolving name-conflicts
387 resulting from IMPORT, EXPORT, or USE-PACKAGE.
388 * enhancement: variant DEFPACKAGE forms now signal a full error with
389 restarts provided for resolving the situation. (lp#891351)
390 * enhancement: by setting SB-EXT:*ON-PACKAGE-VARIANCE* appropriately variant
391 DEFPACKAGE forms can now signal a full error with restarts provided for
392 resolving the situation. See manual for details. (lp#891351)
393 * enhancement: make-random-state now uses CryptGenRandom as a seed on Windows.
394 (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) (lp#1102748)
395 * enhancement: backtrace improvements
396 ** secondary CLOS dispatch functions have better debug names (lp#503081)
397 ** easier to read method names in backtraces. See
398 SB-DEBUG:*METHOD-FRAME-STYLE*.
399 ** SB-DEBUG:PRINT-BACKTRACE and SB-DEBUG:LIST-BACKTRACE are available as
400 forwards-compatible replacements for SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE and
401 SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST.
402 ** SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS** has been deprecated, as the same
403 information is available in less intrusive form as frame annotations.
404 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides MAP-ANON.
405 * enhancement: test-suite results are colorized, failures in red, unexpected
406 success in green. Works on Windows and on terminals with ANSI escape code
407 support. Can be disabled with --no-color.
408 * optimization: SB-CONCURRENCY:QUEUE implementation is more efficient.
409 (thanks to James M. Lawrence)
410 * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings from RESTART-CASE
411 macroexpansion (lp#1113859)
412 * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings when loading
413 sb-bsd-sockets.asd (lp#1114681)
414 * bug fix: deleting a package removes it from implementation-package
415 lists of other packages.
416 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING is now usable in the Slime REPL on Darwin.
417 This does not fix the occasional "interrupt already pending" issue, though.
418 * bug fix: (setf (documentation 'x 'function)) and
419 (setf (documentation #'x t)) set documentation in different places.
420 (regression since 1.0.43.63)
421 * bug fix: build on newer glibc. (lp#1095036)
423 changes in sbcl-1.1.4 relative to sbcl-1.1.3:
424 * optimization: LOOP expressions using "of-type character" have slightly
425 more efficient expansions.
426 * bug fix: very long (or infinite) constant lists in DOLIST do not result
427 in very long compile times or heap exhaustion anymore. (lp#1095488)
428 * bug fix: `#3(1) is read as #(1 1 1), not as #(1). (lp#1095918)
429 * bug fix: adjust-array ignored :initial-element for simple-vectors.
431 * bug fix: optimizations to MAKE-INSTANCE with literal list initargs no
432 longer cause infinite loops (on circular data) or violate eqlity
433 constraints. (lp#1099708)
434 * bug fix: FIRST was not being open coded. (regression from 1.1.0)
436 changes in sbcl-1.1.3 relative to sbcl-1.1.2:
437 * enhancement: warnings about bad locale settings, LANG, LC_CTYPE, etc.
439 * enhancement: support for C-c to interrupt the foreground thread
440 on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
441 * enhancement: STDCALL alien callbacks. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
442 * enhancement: Safepoint builds on POSIX platforms can now optionally be
443 built without pseudo-atomic sequences and their run-time overhead.
444 * enhancement: Threads created outside of Lisp can enter Lisp through
445 alien callbacks and appear as Lisp threads for the duration of that
446 function invocation. On safepoint builds only.
447 * enhancement: Miscellaneous improvements to namestrings and underlying
448 calls to OS functions for file system access on Windows. (Thanks to
450 * enhancement: The MSI installer support for Windows now uses Windows
451 Installer XML at least version 3.5 and includes various usability
452 improvements. (Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.)
453 * enhancement: The sb-bsd-sockets contrib now supports non-blocking-mode
454 on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
455 * enhancement: The Windows backend now supports the x86-64 platform.
456 (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
457 * bug fix: fasls are now once again directly executable (on platforms
458 supporting shebang lines, with a suitably-installed sbcl).
459 * bug fix: make.sh --help no longer runs clean.sh. (lp#937001)
460 * bug fix: Fix CAS access to slots of direct instances of structure classes
461 in the presence of subclasses sharing the same conc-name.
462 * bug fix: Logical pathname namestrings on Windows have been changed to
463 be lower-case, to minimize differences between POSIX and Windows.
465 changes in sbcl-1.1.2 relative to sbcl-1.1.1:
466 * notice: System requirements for SBCL on Microsoft Windows: Windows NT 5.1
467 or newer (Windows XP, Server 2003) is required. Support for Windows 2000
468 (NT 5.0) is no longer being maintained.
469 * notice: Starting with this version, SBCL on Windows no longer supports
470 building with disabled thread support.
471 * enhancement: frlocks have been added to SB-CONCURRENCY contrib module.
472 * enhancement: New feature sb-dynamic-core allows the runtime to be
473 rebuilt or relocated without requiring changes to the core file on
474 all linkage table platforms. Required on Windows. (Thanks to Anton
476 * enhancement: Console I/O streams use UCS-2. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
477 * enhancement: I/O on Windows unnamed pipes is interruptible
478 asynchronously using interrupt-thread, timers when running on Windows NT
479 version 6.1 or newer (Windows 7, Server 2008 R2). (Thanks to Anton
481 * enhancement: Support for the experimental safepoint-based stop-the-world
482 protocol on the PowerPC platform.
483 * bug fix: Non-blocking reads from the Windows console were not necessarily
484 non-blocking. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko. (lp#308923)
485 * bug fix: stability of threads on Windows has been improved upon through
486 an updated stop-the-world protocol (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
488 changes in sbcl-1.1.1 relative to sbcl-1.1.0:
489 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT no longer grabs the world-lock.
490 (COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE still do.)
491 * optimization: the SPARC backend now supports the precise generational
492 (GENCGC) garbage collection. Enabled by default on Solaris/SPARC and
493 Linux/SPARC. Thanks to Raymond Toy (via CMUCL).
494 * enhancement: add experimental support for the SB-THREAD feature and the
495 timer facility on Windows. Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.
496 Threads are enabled by default, and this version of SBCL is considered
497 to be the last and final release to officially support building with
499 * optimization: The compiler no longer rotates loops in some cases where
500 this transformation actually lead to worse code being generated.
501 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:MACROEXPAND-ALL correctly handles shadowing of
502 symbol-macros by lexical bindings.
503 * bug fix: stack allocation was prevented by high DEBUG declaration in
505 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GC-LOGFILE signaled an error when no logfile was set.
506 (thanks to SANO Masatoshi)
507 * bug fix: PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING performed non-native parsing when
508 :JUNK-ALLOWED was true.
509 * bug fix: type derivation inferred overly conservative types for
510 unions of array types. (lp#1050768)
512 changes in sbcl-1.1.0 relative to sbcl-1.0.58:
513 * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling
514 source annotation of DISASSEMBLE output. Defaults to T.
515 * enhancement: TIMEOUT arguments added to WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK, and
516 WAIT-P argument added to WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK.
517 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-PUSH and SB-EXT:ATOMIC-POP allow atomic operations
519 * enhancement: Optional features (not enabled by default) allow the
520 use of signals for inter-thread synchronization to be reduced on certain
521 supported platforms (currently Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD on x86 and
522 x86-64). Set (and :sb-thread :sb-safepoint :sb-thruption :sb-wtimer)
523 to test these experimental features. Known remaining bugs include minor
524 thread safety issues, less timely freeing of memory by GC, and certain
525 (not yet optimally low) runtime overhead. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.
526 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT of lists are faster and use fewer
527 comparisons, particularly on almost-sorted inputs.
528 * bug fix: Reading floats with large exponents no longer takes too much time
529 before reporting that the exponent is too large.
530 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-RECEIVE with a UDP socket now works
531 correctly when the received datagram is larger than the provided buffer.
532 (lp#1023438, thanks to Robert Uhl)
533 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION returned a bogus read-form when given
534 a SYMBOL-VALUE form with a constant symbol argument.
535 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION signaled an error when a macro expanding
536 into a DEFCAS defined place was used as the place.
537 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION signaled a type-error when non-bits where looked
538 for from bit-vectors.
539 * bug fix: a race condition around thread creation could (in SBCL 1.0.57)
540 lead to internal errors or crashes (lp#1058799).
541 * documentation: a section on random number generation has been added to the
544 changes in sbcl-1.0.58 relative to sbcl-1.0.57:
545 * enhancement: implicit generic function warnings now specify the package
546 in which the new generic function is being created.
547 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-UPDATE makes it easy to perform non-destructive
548 updates of CAS-able places (similar to Clojure's swap!).
549 * enhancement: run-program no longer decodes and re-encodes environment when
550 :environment argument is not provided. (lp#985904)
551 * enhancement: errors during compiler-macro expansion no longer cause
552 runtime errors, only a compile-time warning, otherwise behaving as if
553 the compiler macro had declined to expand.
554 * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with
555 multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP.
556 * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is
557 of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (lp#1001043,
558 thanks to James M. Lawrence)
559 * optimization: the compiler no longer heap-conses to check exits in cases
560 where the exit function is dynamic extent, or when it can prove the exit
561 function cannot escape. (lp#1002534)
562 * optimization: SB-SEQUENCE:DOSEQUENCE is faster on vectors of unknown
563 element type, and vectors that aren't SIMPLE-ARRAYs.
564 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT are more efficient in execution
565 speed (around 1/3 the time in some cases), and a little better in terms of
566 comparison calls. (Thanks to Takeru Ohta)
567 * bug fix: On SPARC, a limitation on the number of code constants emittable
568 by the compiler has been lifted, allowing certain long functions to
569 compiled and assembled which had previously been unsupported; fixes
570 cl-bench on this ISA (lp#1008996).
571 * bug fix: potential for infinite recursion during compilation of CLOS slot
572 typechecks when dependency graph had loops. (lp#1001799)
573 * bug fix: error forms reported with some program-errors were not escaped
575 * bug fix: functions from EVAL are now on more equal footing with functions
576 from COMPILE. (lp#1000783, lp#851170, lp#922408)
577 * bug fix: ENSURE-GENERIC-METHOD-COMBINATION accepts method combination
578 objects as its :METHOD-COMBINATION argument, not just lists designating
579 method combinations. (lp#936513)
580 * bug fix: run-program no longer unconditionally uses /tmp/ for temporary
582 * bug fix: restore build on solaris/sparc. (lp#1008506)
583 * bug fix: an issue with LDB in the PowerPC backend has been resolved;
584 this fixes an issue found with cl-postgres (thanks to Tomas Hlavaty).
585 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-lists specifying non-keyword symbols
586 as keyword arguments no longer accidentally match unevaluated symbols
588 * bug fix: FORMAT used to loop infinitely in some cases when a COLINC
589 parameter was zero, now it signals an error. (lp#905817, fixed since
591 * bug fix: run-program with :pty t no longer makes the pty as the process's
593 * bug fix: spawning threads on OS X 10.8 no longer crashes the process
596 changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
597 * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes:
598 ** bug fix: the range and distribution of random integers could be
599 catastrophically wrong when the compiler derived the type of its
600 argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
601 ** bug fix: the distribution of random integers is now completely
602 uniform even when the specified limit is not a power of two.
603 (Previously some values could be about 0.1 % more probable than
604 others in the worst case.) (lp#309467)
605 ** RANDOM on large integer arguments is generally faster and conses
606 less than before; this is visible for fixnums above a length of
607 about 24 bits, but extremely so for bignums: the old implementation
608 used time and space quadratical in the size of the argument there,
609 the new one is linear.
610 * enhancement: redesigned protocol for quitting SBCL. SB-EXT:EXIT is the new
611 main entry point, SB-EXT:QUIT is deprecated.
612 * enhancement: additions to the SB-THREAD API: RETURN-FROM-THREAD,
613 ABORT-THREAD, MAIN-THREAD-P, and MAIN-THREAD.
614 * enhancement: FASL loading no longer grabs the world-lock.
615 * enhancement: GENCGC reclaims space more aggressively when objects being
616 allocated are a large fraction of the total available heap space.
618 * enhancement: backtraces show the correct number of arguments for frames
619 called with too many arguments.
620 * enhancement: support for abort(3), exit(3), and _exit(2) has been added to
622 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.21.
623 * optimization: fewer uses of full calls to signed modular functions.
625 * optimization: typechecking alien values is typically 5 x faster.
626 * optimization: FDEFINITION, SYMBOL-FUNCTION, MACRO-FUNCTION, and FBOUNDP
628 * bug fix: file compilation performance issues when dumping subtypes
629 of CHARACTER (lp#994487)
630 * bug fix: fixed disassembly of some SSE instructions on x86-64.
631 * bug fix: SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS signals an error for bogus :CLASS arguments in
632 OPEN. (lp#969352, thanks to Kambiz Darabi)
633 * bug fix: CASE normal-clauses do not allow T and OTHERWISE as keys.
635 * bug fix: (SETF (FIND-CLASS X) NIL) removed proper name of the underlying
636 classoid even if X was not the proper name of the class. (lp#941102)
637 * bug fix: declaration leakage between lexical environments due to careless
638 use of NCONC in MAKE-LEXENV. (lp#924276)
639 * bug fix: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST now works when
640 *default-pathname-defaults* contains NAME or TYPE components.
641 * bug fix: PPRINT couldn't print improper lists with CARs being some symbols
642 from CL package, e.g. (loop . 10).
643 * bug fix: run-program with existent or non-existent files for :output or
644 :input when :if-output-exists or :if-input-does-not-exist are NIL properly
645 returns NIL instead of signalling an obscure error.
646 * bug fix: fix miscompilation of some logand forms with large constant
647 arguments. (lp#974406)
648 * bug fix: account for funcallable-instance objects properly in ROOM.
649 * bug fix: incorrect octets reported for c-string decoding errors.
651 * bug fix: miscompilation of LDB on the PowerPC platform. (thanks to Bruce
653 * bug fix: better input error reporting for COMPILE-FILE. (lp#493380)
654 * bug fix: default size of non-nursery generations has been shrunk on GENCGC,
655 allowing faster release of memory back to the OS. (lp#991293)
656 * bug fix: WITH-DEADLINE (:SECONDS NIL :OVERRIDE T) now drops any
657 existing deadline for the dynamic scope of its body.
658 * bug fix: compiler-internal interval arithmetic needed to be more
659 conservative about open intervals when operated on by monotonic but not
660 strictly-monotonic functions. (lp#975528)
661 * bug fix: copy-tree caused stack exhaustion on long linear lists, and now
662 it's also slightly faster. (lp#998926)
663 * bug fix: better error messages for malformed declarations.
665 * bug fix: define-condition didn't return the name of the defined condition.
667 ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)
669 changes in sbcl-1.0.56 relative to sbcl-1.0.55:
670 * bug fix: fix copy-structure. When copying from stack to heap, garbage
671 could end up in the heap making GC unhappy.
672 (Thanks to James Knight, lp#911027)
674 ** SBCL can now be built using Clang.
675 ** ASDF has been updated 2.20.
676 * bug fix: compiler errors when weakening hairy integer types. (lp#913232)
677 * bug fix: don't complain about a too-hairy lexical environment for inlining
678 when the function has never been requested for inlining. (lp#963530)
680 changes in sbcl-1.0.55 relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
681 * enhancements to building SBCL using make.sh:
682 ** --fancy can be specified to enable all supported feature enhancements.
683 ** --with-<feature> and --without-<feature> can be used to specify
684 which features to build with.
685 ** --arch option can be used to specify the architecture to build for.
686 (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not
687 full-blows cross-compilation.)
688 * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax <pkgname>::<form-in-package>
689 which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the
691 * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than
692 T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown)
693 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a
694 null alien when malloc() fails. (lp#891268)
695 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-UNREADABLY restart for PRINT-NOT-READABLE
696 conditions can be conveniently accessed through function with the same
697 name, analogously to CONTINUE.
698 * enhancement: SB-EXT:*SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* can be used to suppress errors
699 from the printer by type, causing an error marker to be printed instead.
700 (Thanks to Attila Lendvai)
701 * enhancement: BACKTRACE and DESCRIBE now bind *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T, and
702 generally behave better when errors occur during printing.
703 * enhancement: the test runner now takes a --report-skipped-tests argument
704 to report the individual tests skipped as well as the number of skipped
706 * enhancement: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
707 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on x86oids.
708 * enhancement: detected deadlocks no longer cause stderr to be spammed, and
709 deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
710 * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
712 * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
713 :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
714 of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to LuÃs Oliveira, lp#901661)
715 * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other
716 instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64.
717 * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude
718 faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial.)
719 * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
721 * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
722 be stack-allocated. (lp#902351)
723 * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
724 floating point constants used in full calls.
725 * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
726 single floats inline, except on x86 where this limitation is still
728 * optimization: truncation operations on integers with constant divisor
729 arguments 1 and -1 are optimized away.
730 * bug fix: deadlock detection could report the same deadlock twice, for
731 two different threads. Now a single deadlock is reported exactly once.
732 * bug fix: interval-arithmetic division during type derivation did not
733 account for signed zeros.
734 * bug fix: compiler error when typechecking a call to a function with
735 non-constant keyword arguments.
736 * bug fix: misoptimization of TRUNCATE causing erratic behaviour.
737 * bug fix: condition slot accessors no longer cause undefined function
738 style-warnings when used in the :REPORT clause of the DEFINE-CONDITION
739 form that defines them. (lp#896379)
740 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC warns about unsupported declarations, as specified
742 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP tests involving forward-referenced classes no longer
743 bogusly report NIL, T.
744 * bug fix: bogus style-warnings for DEFMETHOD forms that both declared some
745 required arguments ignored and performed assignments to others.
747 * bug fix: *EVALUATOR-MODE* :COMPILE treated (LET () ...) identically
748 to (LOCALLY ...) leading to internally inconsistent toplevel-formness.
749 * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type.
750 * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an
751 unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243)
752 * bug fix: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
753 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on non-x86oids.
754 * bug fix: backtraces are no longer cut off at ("undefined function") when
755 called under certain circumstances (involving a caller-allocated stack
757 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM leaked a file-descriptor per call on non-Windows
758 systems. (regression since 1.0.53)
759 * bug fix: GC deadlocks from dladdr() on certain platforms.
760 * bug fix: broken standard streams no longer automatically cause recursive
761 errors on debugger entry.
762 * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
763 (regression since 1.0.53)
764 * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
765 an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
766 * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
767 no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
768 * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
769 subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
770 * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
771 forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
772 * bug fix: some of the compile-time side-effects of DEFCLASS were not caught
774 * bug fix: Proper handling of --dynamic-space-size option on 32 bit platforms.
776 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
777 * minor incompatible changes:
778 ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file
780 ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the
781 directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve the
782 pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE if
783 you wish to delete the
784 ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using
785 symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning.
786 * thread-related enhancements:
787 (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign.
788 Many thanks to generous donors!)
789 ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still don't
790 consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to enable them by
791 default, but they're in a clearly better shape now.
792 ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms.
793 ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT
795 ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD.
796 ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects.
797 ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE,
798 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
799 ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
800 using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
801 * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes:
802 ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb,
803 and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before.
804 ** on GENCGC targets, the default dynamic space size is now 512Mb for
805 32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only
806 exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The
807 new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems.
808 Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with
809 another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a
810 good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system
812 ** on GENCGC targets, nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of
814 ** on GENCGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ no longer categorically
815 refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
816 ** on 64-bit GENCGC targets, setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works.
818 ** on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does the same
819 validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
820 comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.
821 * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes:
822 ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
823 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
824 systems with getaddrinfo().
825 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
826 safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
827 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.019.
828 * enhancement: special-case TCO prevention for functions which never return
829 extended to untrusted types, keeping one more frame's worth of debug
830 information around in many cases.
831 * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more
832 descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100)
833 * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against
834 overflows. (lp#888410)
835 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child
836 process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987)
837 * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing
838 the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are
839 located. (Thanks to Zach Beane)
840 * enhancement: the compiler is now able to derive tighter bounds for
841 floating point numbers in some cases. (Thanks to Lutz Euler, lp#894498)
842 * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
843 correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
844 * bug fix: (DIRECTORY "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that
845 resolved to directories.
846 * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer
847 result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750)
848 * bug fix: type mismatch on (SETF AREF) and function return values no
849 longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects.
850 * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
851 <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
852 instead of partially calculating only to single-precision. (lp#741564;
853 thanks to Lutz Euler)
854 * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus
855 objects when interrupted by GC on PPC.
857 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
858 * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,
859 the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum =
860 (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.
861 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events.
862 * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit
863 targets is now 63 bits (up from 61).
864 * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location
865 for complext setf-expanders.
866 * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO,
867 GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values
868 of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an
869 error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3).
870 * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64.
871 * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation
872 when built with certain compilers.
873 * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant
874 rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151)
875 * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus
876 code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on
878 * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying
879 to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with
881 * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage
882 on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445)
883 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to
884 delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877)
885 * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length
886 sequences and :KEY NIL.
888 changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51:
889 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017.
890 * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with
892 * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular
893 or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION
894 argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level.
895 * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime
896 hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL
897 processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only
898 enable this for compressed cores.
899 * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses.
900 * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings
901 or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table.
902 * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error.
904 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with
905 AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971)
906 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of
907 multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970)
908 * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list
909 expressions. (lp#770184)
910 * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used
911 as arguments of arithmetic operators.
912 * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a
913 fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller)
914 * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds
915 from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max
917 * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are
918 added or removed works again.
920 changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50:
921 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer
922 participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to
923 MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT.
924 * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals
925 and probe counts on Linux.
926 * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a
927 chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.)
928 * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive
930 * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine
931 (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
932 * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on
933 x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov).
934 * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed
935 to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently
936 implemented for x86 and x86-64.
937 * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented
938 using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.)
939 * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE.
940 * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle
941 instructions. (lp#814688)
942 * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works.
943 (reported by Jan Moringen; lp#815155)
944 * bug fix: a compiler error during typecheck generation, reported by Eric
946 * bug fix: obsolete instance protocol fires when shared slots are added
948 * bug fix: fixed-format floating point printing with scaling factors.
950 * bug fix: using GCC >= 4.6 to build SBCL on x86 no longer breaks
951 backtraces. (lp#818460)
952 * bug fix: better backtraces for interrupted syscall frames on x86.
954 * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one
955 operand is in memory. (lp#814702)
956 * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599)
957 * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived
958 type information associated with the VALUES form.
959 * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE
961 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before
962 first write (lp#561642).
963 * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974)
964 * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to
965 floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler.
967 * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known
968 functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459).
969 * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression
972 changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
973 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
974 the offending handler.
975 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure
977 * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily
978 be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*
979 and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*.
980 * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for
981 the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments.
982 * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when
983 COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED.
984 * enhancement: SB-ALIEN exports alien type specifiers SIZE-T and OFF-T.
985 * enhancement: debugger understands &MORE arguments better.
986 * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been
987 optimized. (lp#555201)
988 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors,
989 when (> SPEED SPACE).
990 * optimization: local call trampolines (x86 and x86-64) are emitted
992 * optimization: implicit value cells for dynamic-extent closed-over bindings
993 on x86 and x86-64 can hold unboxed values as well.
994 * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large
995 functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206)
996 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
997 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
998 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
999 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
1000 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
1001 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
1002 * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT
1003 boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots.
1004 * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist.
1005 (lp#795705, regression)
1006 * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames.
1007 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings
1008 are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237)
1009 * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in
1010 MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812)
1011 * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg.
1012 (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously.
1014 * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic
1015 functions with both optional and key argments.
1016 * bug fix: regalloc doesn't barf on unused TNs due to type-directed constant
1017 folding. (lp#729765)
1018 * bug fix: Fixed an off-by-one in MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS that might have caused
1021 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
1022 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
1023 interrupts for its body.
1024 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
1025 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
1026 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
1027 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
1028 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
1029 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
1030 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
1032 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
1034 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
1035 type-errors detected at compile-time.
1036 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
1037 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
1038 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
1039 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
1040 easier to use safely.
1041 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
1042 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
1043 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
1044 * enhancement: --script improvements:
1045 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
1046 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
1048 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
1049 terminal even if one is available.
1050 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
1052 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
1053 strings to foreign memory.
1054 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
1055 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
1056 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
1057 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
1058 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
1060 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
1061 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
1063 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
1064 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
1065 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
1066 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
1067 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
1068 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
1069 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
1070 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
1071 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
1073 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
1075 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
1077 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
1078 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
1079 years, is now no longer supported.
1080 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
1081 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
1082 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
1083 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
1084 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
1085 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
1086 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
1087 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
1088 functions. (lp#740717)
1089 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
1090 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
1091 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
1092 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
1093 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
1095 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
1096 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
1097 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
1098 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
1099 of DEFUN. (lp#675584)
1100 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
1102 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
1104 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
1105 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
1106 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
1108 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
1109 could exhaust stack.
1111 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
1112 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
1113 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
1115 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
1116 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
1117 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
1118 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
1119 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
1120 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
1121 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
1122 declarations. (lp#726331)
1123 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
1124 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
1125 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
1127 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
1128 and its compatriots.
1129 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
1130 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
1131 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
1132 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
1133 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
1134 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
1135 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
1136 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
1137 are detected. (lp#520607)
1138 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
1140 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
1141 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
1142 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
1143 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
1144 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
1145 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
1146 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
1148 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
1149 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
1150 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
1151 variable. (lp#551227)
1152 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
1154 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
1155 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
1156 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
1157 arguments (lp#710017)
1158 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
1159 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
1161 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
1162 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
1163 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
1164 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
1165 up instance creation in those cases.
1166 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
1167 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
1168 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
1169 pretty-printing was overly slow.
1170 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
1171 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
1172 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
1173 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
1174 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
1176 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
1177 mistake. (lp#667297).
1178 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
1179 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
1180 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
1181 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
1182 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
1183 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
1186 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
1187 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
1188 Refer to documentation for details.
1189 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
1190 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
1191 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
1192 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
1193 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
1194 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
1196 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
1197 argument list. (lp#310173)
1198 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
1199 derived properly (lp#384892)
1200 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
1201 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
1202 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
1203 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
1204 in the DEFMETHOD body.
1205 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
1206 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
1207 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
1208 operators. (lp#309448)
1210 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
1211 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
1212 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
1213 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
1215 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
1216 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
1217 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
1218 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
1219 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
1221 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
1222 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
1223 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
1224 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
1225 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
1226 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
1227 addition member types.
1228 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
1229 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
1230 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
1231 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
1232 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
1234 * improvements to the Windows port:
1235 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
1236 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
1237 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
1238 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
1239 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
1241 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
1242 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
1243 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
1244 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
1246 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
1247 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
1248 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
1249 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
1250 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
1251 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
1252 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
1253 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
1254 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
1255 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
1256 so badly. (lp#654485)
1257 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
1258 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
1259 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
1260 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1261 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
1262 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
1263 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
1264 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
1265 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
1266 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
1267 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
1268 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
1269 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
1270 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
1271 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
1272 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
1273 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1274 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
1276 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
1277 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
1278 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
1279 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
1280 contribs (lp#659105)
1281 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
1282 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1283 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
1284 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
1285 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
1286 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
1287 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
1288 properly. (lp#384801)
1289 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
1290 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
1292 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
1293 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
1294 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
1295 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
1296 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
1298 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
1299 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1300 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
1301 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1303 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
1304 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
1305 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
1306 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
1307 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
1308 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
1309 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
1310 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
1312 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
1314 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
1315 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
1316 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
1318 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
1319 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
1320 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1321 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
1322 thanks to Andrew Golding)
1323 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
1324 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
1326 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
1327 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
1328 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1329 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
1330 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1331 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
1332 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1333 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
1334 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
1335 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
1336 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1337 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
1338 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
1339 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
1341 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
1342 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
1343 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
1344 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1345 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
1346 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1347 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
1348 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
1349 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
1350 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
1351 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
1352 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
1353 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
1354 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
1355 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
1356 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
1357 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
1358 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
1359 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
1361 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
1363 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
1364 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
1366 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
1368 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
1369 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
1370 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
1371 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
1372 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
1373 * optimization: The default implementation of
1374 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
1375 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
1376 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
1377 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
1378 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
1379 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
1380 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1381 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
1382 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1383 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
1384 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
1386 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
1387 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
1388 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
1389 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
1390 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
1391 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
1393 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
1395 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
1396 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
1397 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
1398 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
1399 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
1400 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
1402 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
1404 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
1405 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
1407 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
1408 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
1410 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
1411 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
1412 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
1413 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
1414 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
1415 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
1416 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
1417 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
1418 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
1419 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
1420 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1421 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
1423 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
1425 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
1426 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
1427 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
1428 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
1429 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
1430 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
1431 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
1432 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
1433 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
1434 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
1436 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
1437 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
1438 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
1440 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
1441 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
1442 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
1444 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
1445 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
1446 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
1448 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
1449 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
1450 generic function call.
1451 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
1452 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
1453 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
1455 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
1457 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
1458 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
1459 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
1460 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
1461 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
1462 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
1463 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
1464 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
1465 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
1466 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
1467 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
1468 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
1469 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
1470 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
1471 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
1473 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
1474 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
1475 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
1476 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
1477 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
1478 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
1479 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
1480 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
1481 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
1482 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
1483 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
1484 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
1485 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
1486 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
1487 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
1488 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
1489 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
1490 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
1491 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
1492 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
1493 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
1494 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
1495 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
1496 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
1497 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
1499 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
1500 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
1501 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
1503 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
1504 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
1506 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
1507 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
1508 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
1509 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
1511 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
1512 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
1513 stack frame thrown from.
1514 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
1515 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
1516 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
1517 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
1519 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
1520 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
1521 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
1522 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
1523 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
1524 for accessing such arrays.
1525 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
1526 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
1527 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
1528 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1529 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
1530 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
1531 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
1532 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
1533 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
1534 functions. (lp#524707)
1535 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1536 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
1537 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
1538 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
1539 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
1540 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
1541 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
1542 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
1543 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
1544 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
1545 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
1546 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
1547 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
1548 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
1550 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
1551 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
1552 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
1553 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
1554 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
1556 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1557 declarations (lp#497321)
1558 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
1559 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
1560 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
1562 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
1563 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
1564 due to it, so that handlers can run.
1565 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
1566 parsing. (lp#309128)
1567 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
1568 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
1569 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
1570 expanded calls (lp#542174)
1571 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
1572 than just at toplevel form.
1574 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
1575 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
1576 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
1577 but work on type specifiers.
1578 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
1579 to name a type specifier.
1580 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
1581 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
1582 second argument of TYPEP".
1583 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
1584 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
1585 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
1586 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
1587 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
1588 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
1589 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
1590 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
1591 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
1592 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
1593 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
1594 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
1595 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
1597 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
1599 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
1600 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
1602 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
1603 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
1604 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
1605 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
1606 before reaching the erring stack frame.
1607 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
1608 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
1609 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
1610 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
1611 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
1612 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
1613 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
1614 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
1616 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
1617 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
1618 is properly inlined when possible.
1619 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
1620 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
1621 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
1622 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
1623 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
1624 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
1625 launchpad bug lp#508485)
1626 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
1627 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
1628 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
1629 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
1630 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
1631 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
1633 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
1634 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
1636 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
1638 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
1639 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
1640 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
1641 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
1642 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
1643 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1644 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
1646 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
1647 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
1648 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
1649 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
1650 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
1651 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
1652 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
1653 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
1654 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
1655 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
1656 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
1657 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
1658 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
1659 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
1661 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
1664 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
1665 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1666 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
1667 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
1668 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
1669 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
1670 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
1671 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
1673 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
1674 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
1675 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
1676 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
1678 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
1679 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
1680 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1681 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1682 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1683 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1685 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
1686 errors for fd-stream external formats.
1687 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
1688 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
1689 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
1690 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
1691 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
1693 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
1694 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
1695 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
1696 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
1698 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
1699 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
1700 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
1701 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
1702 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
1704 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
1705 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
1706 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
1707 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
1708 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
1709 error is near the end of file.
1710 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
1711 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
1712 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
1713 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
1714 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
1715 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
1716 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
1717 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
1718 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
1719 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1720 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
1721 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
1722 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
1723 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
1724 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
1725 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
1726 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
1727 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
1728 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
1729 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
1730 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
1731 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
1732 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
1733 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
1735 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
1736 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
1737 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
1738 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
1739 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
1740 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
1741 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
1742 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
1743 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
1745 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
1746 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
1747 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
1748 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
1750 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
1751 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
1752 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
1754 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
1756 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
1757 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
1759 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
1760 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
1761 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
1762 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
1763 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
1764 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
1765 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
1766 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
1767 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
1768 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
1769 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1770 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
1771 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
1773 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
1774 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
1775 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
1776 open coded is now considered a bug.
1777 * improvements related to Unicode:
1778 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1779 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1780 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1782 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
1783 syllable characters.
1784 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
1785 (as well as for stream operations).
1786 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
1787 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
1789 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
1790 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
1792 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
1794 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
1795 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
1796 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
1797 constant two has been optimized.
1798 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
1799 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1800 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
1801 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
1802 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
1803 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
1804 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
1805 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
1806 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
1807 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
1808 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
1809 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
1810 but assumed or declared function as well.
1811 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
1812 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1813 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
1814 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
1816 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
1817 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
1818 well as user defined declaration names.
1819 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
1820 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
1822 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
1823 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1824 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
1825 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
1826 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
1828 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
1830 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
1832 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
1833 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1834 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
1835 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1836 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
1837 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
1838 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
1839 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
1840 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
1842 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
1843 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1844 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
1845 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
1846 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
1847 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
1849 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
1850 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
1851 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
1852 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
1853 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
1854 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
1855 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1856 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
1858 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
1859 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
1860 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
1861 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
1862 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
1863 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
1864 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1865 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
1866 values in other threads.
1867 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
1868 about object allocation.
1869 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
1870 with a specialised code sequence.
1871 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
1872 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
1873 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
1874 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
1875 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
1876 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
1877 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
1878 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
1879 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
1880 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
1882 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
1884 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
1885 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
1886 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
1887 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
1888 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
1889 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
1890 unboxed format on x86[-64].
1891 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
1892 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
1893 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
1894 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
1895 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
1897 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
1898 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
1899 contains more pertinent information.
1900 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
1901 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
1902 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
1903 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
1904 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
1905 types. (reported by "abhi")
1906 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
1907 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
1908 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1909 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
1910 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
1911 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
1912 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
1913 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
1914 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
1915 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
1916 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1917 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
1918 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1919 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
1920 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
1921 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
1922 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
1923 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
1925 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
1926 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
1927 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
1928 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
1929 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1930 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
1931 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1933 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
1934 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
1935 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
1936 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
1937 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
1938 (no subscription required.)
1939 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
1940 types are weakened less aggressively.
1941 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
1942 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
1943 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
1944 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
1945 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
1946 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
1947 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
1948 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
1950 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
1951 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
1952 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
1953 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
1955 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
1956 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
1957 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
1959 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
1960 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
1961 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
1963 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
1964 is known are 50% faster.
1965 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
1966 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
1968 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
1969 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
1970 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
1971 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
1972 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
1974 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
1975 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
1976 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
1977 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
1978 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
1979 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
1981 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
1982 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
1983 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
1984 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
1985 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
1986 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1987 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
1988 to Tobias Rittweiler)
1989 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
1990 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
1991 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
1992 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
1993 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
1994 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1995 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
1996 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
1997 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
1998 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
1999 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
2001 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
2002 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
2003 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
2004 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
2006 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
2007 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
2008 result register (bug 316325).
2009 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
2010 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
2011 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
2012 generate incorrect code.
2013 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
2014 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
2015 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
2016 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
2018 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
2019 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
2020 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
2021 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
2022 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
2023 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
2024 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
2025 from :INITFORM, if any.
2027 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
2028 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
2029 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
2030 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
2031 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
2033 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
2034 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
2035 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
2036 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
2037 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
2038 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2039 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
2040 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
2041 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2042 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
2044 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
2045 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2046 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
2047 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
2048 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
2049 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
2050 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
2051 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
2052 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
2053 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
2054 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
2055 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
2056 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
2057 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2058 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
2059 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
2060 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
2062 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
2063 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
2064 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
2065 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
2066 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
2067 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
2068 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
2069 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
2071 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
2072 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2073 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
2074 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
2075 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
2077 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
2078 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
2079 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
2080 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
2081 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
2082 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
2083 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
2084 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
2085 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
2086 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
2087 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
2088 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
2089 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
2090 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
2091 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
2092 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
2094 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
2095 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
2096 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
2097 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
2098 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
2099 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
2100 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
2101 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
2102 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
2103 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
2104 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
2105 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
2106 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
2107 recursive errors or deadlock.
2108 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
2109 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
2110 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
2112 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
2113 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
2114 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
2115 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
2116 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
2117 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
2118 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
2119 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
2121 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
2122 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
2123 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
2124 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
2125 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2126 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
2127 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
2128 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
2130 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
2131 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
2132 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
2133 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
2134 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
2135 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
2136 their constant arguments.
2137 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
2138 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2139 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
2140 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
2141 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
2142 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
2143 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
2144 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
2145 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
2146 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
2147 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
2148 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
2149 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
2150 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
2151 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
2152 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
2153 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
2154 * improvements to the Windows port:
2155 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
2156 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
2158 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
2159 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
2160 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
2161 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
2162 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2163 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
2164 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
2165 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
2166 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
2167 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
2168 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
2169 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
2170 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
2171 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
2173 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
2175 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
2176 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
2177 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
2178 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2179 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
2180 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2181 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
2182 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2183 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
2184 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
2186 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
2187 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
2188 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
2189 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
2190 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
2191 compile-time style-warning.
2192 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
2193 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
2194 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
2195 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
2196 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
2197 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
2198 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
2199 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
2200 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
2201 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
2202 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
2203 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
2204 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
2205 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
2206 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
2207 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
2209 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
2210 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
2211 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
2212 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
2213 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
2214 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
2215 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
2216 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
2217 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
2219 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
2221 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
2224 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
2225 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
2226 for the associated fast function is also produced.
2227 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
2229 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
2230 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
2231 special handling by the pretty printer.
2232 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
2233 now interact correctly with type declarations.
2234 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
2235 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2236 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
2237 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
2238 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
2239 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
2240 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
2241 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
2243 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
2244 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
2245 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
2246 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
2247 object loading function as-it.
2248 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
2249 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
2251 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
2252 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
2254 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
2255 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
2256 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
2257 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2258 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
2259 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
2260 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
2261 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
2262 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
2264 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
2265 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
2266 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
2267 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
2268 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
2269 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
2270 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2271 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
2272 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2273 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
2274 file descriptors when there were none.
2275 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
2276 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
2277 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
2278 pathnames without a directory.
2279 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
2280 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
2281 not signal an error.
2282 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
2283 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
2284 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
2285 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
2286 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
2287 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
2288 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
2289 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
2291 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
2292 after alien stack frames.
2293 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
2295 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
2296 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
2297 generic function across method addition and removal.
2298 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
2299 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
2300 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
2301 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
2303 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
2304 non-local transfer of control.
2305 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
2306 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
2307 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
2308 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
2309 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
2310 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
2311 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
2313 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
2314 owned by other threads anymore.
2315 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
2316 subsequence. (reported by budden)
2317 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
2318 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
2319 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
2320 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
2322 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
2323 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
2324 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
2325 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
2326 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
2327 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
2328 added to the user manual.
2329 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
2330 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
2331 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
2332 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
2333 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
2334 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
2336 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
2338 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
2339 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
2340 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
2341 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
2342 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
2343 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
2344 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
2346 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
2347 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
2349 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
2350 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
2351 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
2352 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
2353 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
2354 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
2355 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
2357 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
2358 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
2360 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
2361 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
2362 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
2363 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
2364 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
2365 type of a variable is made.
2366 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
2367 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
2369 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
2370 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2371 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
2372 (thanks to Michael Weber)
2373 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
2374 (thanks to Michael Weber)
2375 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
2376 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
2377 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
2379 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
2380 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
2381 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
2382 of the type that's the value of this variable.
2383 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
2385 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
2386 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
2387 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
2388 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
2389 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
2390 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
2391 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
2392 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
2393 * improvements to the Windows port:
2394 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
2395 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
2396 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2397 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
2398 to single-float coercions.
2399 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
2400 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
2401 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
2402 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
2403 containing invalid type specifiers.
2404 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
2405 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
2407 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
2408 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
2409 profiles only the current thread.
2410 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
2411 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
2412 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
2413 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
2414 has also additional sorting options.
2415 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
2417 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
2418 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
2419 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
2420 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
2421 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
2422 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
2424 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
2426 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
2427 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
2428 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
2429 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
2430 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
2431 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
2433 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
2434 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2435 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
2436 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
2437 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
2438 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
2439 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
2440 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
2441 (thanks to James Knight)
2442 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
2443 (thanks to Travis Cross)
2444 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2445 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
2446 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
2447 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
2448 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
2449 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
2450 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
2452 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
2453 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
2454 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
2455 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
2456 use this feature in the meanwhile.
2457 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
2458 adjust thread default control stack size.
2459 * enhancement: improved TIME output
2460 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
2461 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
2462 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
2463 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
2464 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
2465 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
2466 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
2467 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
2469 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
2471 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
2472 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
2473 in normal SPEED policies.
2474 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
2475 in normal SPEED policies.
2476 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
2477 to Sidney Markowitz)
2478 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
2479 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2480 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
2481 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2482 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
2483 as the second argument.
2484 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
2485 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
2486 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
2488 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
2489 platform word lengths.
2490 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
2491 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
2492 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
2494 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
2495 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2497 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
2498 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
2499 signaling added in 1.0.14.
2500 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
2501 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
2502 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
2503 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
2504 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
2505 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2506 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
2507 on threaded platforms.
2508 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
2509 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
2510 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
2511 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
2512 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
2513 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
2514 representation is available.
2515 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
2516 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
2517 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
2518 Francois-Rene Rideau)
2519 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2520 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2521 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
2522 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
2523 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
2524 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
2525 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
2526 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
2527 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
2529 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
2530 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
2531 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
2532 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
2533 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
2534 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
2535 traces SETF-functions as well.
2536 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
2537 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
2538 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
2539 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
2541 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
2542 is now more efficient.
2543 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
2544 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
2545 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
2546 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
2547 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
2548 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2549 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
2550 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
2551 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
2552 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
2553 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
2555 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
2556 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
2557 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
2558 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
2559 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
2560 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
2561 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
2562 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
2563 * improvements to the Windows port:
2564 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
2565 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
2567 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
2568 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
2569 (see documentation for details.)
2570 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
2571 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
2572 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
2573 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
2574 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
2576 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
2577 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
2578 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
2579 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
2580 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
2581 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
2582 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
2583 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
2584 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
2586 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
2587 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
2588 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
2589 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
2590 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
2591 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
2592 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
2594 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
2595 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
2596 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
2597 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
2598 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
2599 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
2600 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
2601 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
2603 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
2604 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
2605 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
2606 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
2607 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
2608 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
2609 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
2610 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
2611 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
2612 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2613 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
2614 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
2615 known at compile-time.
2616 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
2617 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
2618 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
2620 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
2621 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
2623 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
2624 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2625 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2626 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
2627 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
2628 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
2630 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
2632 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
2634 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
2637 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
2638 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
2639 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
2640 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
2641 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
2642 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
2643 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
2644 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
2645 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
2646 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
2647 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
2648 END is smaller then START.
2649 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
2650 calls to profiled functions.
2651 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
2652 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
2653 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
2654 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
2655 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
2656 hash-table usage have been fixed.
2657 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
2658 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
2659 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
2660 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
2661 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
2662 slime to work again.
2664 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
2665 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
2666 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
2667 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
2668 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
2669 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
2670 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
2671 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
2672 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
2673 and will signal an error at runtime.
2674 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
2675 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
2676 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
2678 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
2679 platforms providing stack allocation support.
2680 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
2681 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
2683 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
2684 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
2685 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
2686 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2687 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
2688 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
2690 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
2691 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
2693 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
2695 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
2696 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
2697 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
2698 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
2699 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
2700 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
2701 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
2702 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
2703 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
2704 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2705 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
2706 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
2707 a specializer parameter for the method.
2708 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
2709 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
2710 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
2711 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
2712 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
2714 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
2715 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
2717 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
2718 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
2719 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2720 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
2721 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
2722 the CAS operation was being performed.
2723 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
2724 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
2725 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
2726 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
2729 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
2730 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
2731 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
2732 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
2734 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
2735 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
2736 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2737 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
2738 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
2739 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2740 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
2741 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
2742 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
2743 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
2744 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
2745 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
2746 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
2747 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
2748 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
2750 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
2751 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
2752 the underlying file descriptor.
2753 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
2754 could cause buffer-overflows.
2755 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
2756 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
2757 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
2759 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
2761 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
2762 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
2763 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
2764 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
2765 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
2766 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
2769 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
2770 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
2771 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
2772 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
2773 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
2774 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
2775 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
2777 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
2779 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
2780 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
2781 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
2782 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
2783 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
2784 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
2786 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
2787 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
2788 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
2789 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
2790 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
2791 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
2792 objects that can be seen by the GC.
2793 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
2794 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
2795 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
2797 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
2798 as the property-list of a symbol.
2799 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
2800 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
2801 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
2804 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
2805 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
2806 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
2807 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
2808 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
2809 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
2810 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
2811 debugging and introspective support.
2812 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
2813 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
2814 has the owning thread as its value.
2815 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
2816 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
2818 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
2819 "a constant string".
2820 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
2821 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
2822 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
2823 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2824 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
2825 (depending on the bignum size.)
2826 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
2828 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
2829 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
2831 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
2832 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
2834 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
2835 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
2836 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
2837 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
2838 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
2841 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
2842 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
2843 as a contrib module.
2844 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
2845 significantly faster.
2846 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2847 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
2848 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2849 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2850 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
2851 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
2852 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
2853 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
2854 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2855 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
2856 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
2858 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
2860 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
2861 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
2862 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
2863 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
2864 that use the generational garbage collector
2865 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
2867 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
2868 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
2870 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
2872 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
2873 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
2874 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
2875 system running with GC inhibited.
2876 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
2877 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
2878 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
2879 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
2880 (reported by Peter Graves)
2882 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
2883 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
2884 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
2886 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
2887 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
2888 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
2889 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
2890 documented as unsafe.
2891 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
2892 in multithreaded application code.
2893 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
2894 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
2895 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
2897 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
2898 variants no longer cons.
2899 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
2900 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
2901 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
2902 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
2903 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
2904 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
2905 are significantly faster.
2906 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
2907 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
2908 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
2909 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
2910 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
2911 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
2912 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
2913 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
2914 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
2915 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
2916 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
2918 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
2919 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
2920 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
2921 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2922 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
2923 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2924 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
2925 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2926 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
2927 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
2928 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
2929 line in a file is unlimited.
2930 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
2931 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
2932 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
2933 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
2934 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
2935 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
2936 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
2937 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2938 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
2939 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
2940 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2941 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
2942 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
2943 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
2944 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
2945 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
2946 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
2947 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
2948 experimental until this is fixed.
2949 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
2950 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2951 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
2952 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
2953 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
2955 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
2956 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
2957 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
2958 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
2959 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
2960 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
2962 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
2963 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
2964 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2965 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
2966 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
2967 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
2968 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2969 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
2970 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
2972 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
2973 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
2974 (reported by Andras Simon)
2975 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
2976 bugs remain on x86-64.)
2977 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
2978 funcallable instances.
2979 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
2980 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
2982 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
2983 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2984 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
2985 non-base strings as arguments
2986 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
2988 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
2989 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
2991 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
2992 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
2993 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2994 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
2995 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2996 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2997 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
2998 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
2999 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
3001 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
3002 (thanks to Jon Buller)
3003 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
3004 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
3007 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
3008 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
3009 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
3011 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
3012 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
3013 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
3014 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
3015 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
3017 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
3018 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
3019 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
3020 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3021 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
3022 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3023 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
3024 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
3025 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
3026 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
3027 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3028 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
3029 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
3030 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
3031 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
3032 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
3033 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
3034 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
3035 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
3036 stack frames from alien callbacks.
3037 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3038 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
3039 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
3040 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3042 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
3043 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
3044 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
3045 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
3046 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
3047 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
3048 sb-introspect contrib.
3049 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
3050 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
3051 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
3052 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
3053 users and the general community)
3054 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
3055 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
3056 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
3057 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
3058 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3059 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
3060 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
3061 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3062 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
3063 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3064 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
3065 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
3066 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
3067 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
3068 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
3069 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
3071 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
3072 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
3073 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
3074 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
3075 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
3076 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
3077 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
3079 * improvements to the Windows port:
3080 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
3081 to Alastair Bridgewater)
3082 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
3084 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
3085 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3087 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
3088 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
3089 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3090 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
3091 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
3092 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
3093 core, and restored on startup.
3094 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
3095 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
3096 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
3097 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
3098 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
3099 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
3100 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
3102 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
3103 (thanks to Zach Beane)
3104 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
3106 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
3107 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
3108 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
3110 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
3111 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
3112 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
3113 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
3114 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
3115 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
3117 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
3118 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
3119 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
3120 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
3121 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
3122 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
3123 (reported by Josip Gracin)
3124 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
3125 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
3126 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
3127 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
3128 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
3129 and don't cause extra consing
3130 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
3131 whose elements types have been declared.
3132 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
3133 ** Support for allocation profiling
3134 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
3135 * Improvements to the Windows port:
3136 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
3137 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
3138 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
3139 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
3141 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
3142 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
3143 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
3144 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
3145 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
3147 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
3148 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
3149 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
3151 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
3152 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
3153 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
3154 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
3155 with non-variable places
3156 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
3157 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
3158 code more stable against memory faults.
3159 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
3160 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
3161 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
3162 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
3165 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
3166 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
3167 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
3168 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
3169 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
3170 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
3171 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
3172 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
3173 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3174 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3175 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
3176 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
3177 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
3179 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
3180 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
3181 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
3182 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
3183 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
3184 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
3185 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
3187 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
3188 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
3190 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
3191 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
3192 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
3193 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
3194 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
3195 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
3196 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
3197 to the single-stepper REPL.
3198 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
3199 for a type now works.
3200 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
3202 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
3203 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
3204 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
3205 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3206 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
3207 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
3208 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
3209 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
3211 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
3212 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
3213 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
3214 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
3215 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
3216 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
3217 whose bindings are modified
3218 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
3219 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
3220 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
3221 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
3223 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
3224 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
3225 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
3226 as specified by AMOP.
3227 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
3229 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
3230 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3231 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
3232 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
3233 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
3234 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
3235 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
3236 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
3237 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
3238 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
3239 better type inference.
3240 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
3241 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
3242 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
3243 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
3244 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
3245 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3246 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
3247 initialization of methods can now be used to override
3248 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
3250 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
3251 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
3252 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
3253 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
3254 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
3256 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
3257 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
3258 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
3259 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
3260 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
3261 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
3262 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
3263 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
3264 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
3265 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
3266 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
3267 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
3268 (reported by James Y Knight).
3269 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
3270 argument for shadowing by local functions.
3271 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
3273 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
3274 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
3275 with type-inference.
3276 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
3277 types in some cases.
3278 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
3279 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3280 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
3282 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
3283 * thread-safety improvements:
3284 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
3285 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
3286 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
3288 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
3289 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
3291 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
3292 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
3293 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
3295 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
3296 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
3297 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
3298 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
3299 class became finalizeable.
3300 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
3301 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
3302 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
3303 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
3305 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
3306 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
3307 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
3308 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
3309 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
3310 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
3311 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3312 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
3313 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
3314 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
3315 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
3316 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
3317 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
3318 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3319 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
3320 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
3321 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
3322 * minor code generation optimizations:
3323 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
3324 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
3325 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
3326 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
3327 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
3328 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3329 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
3330 return its argument.
3332 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
3333 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
3335 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
3337 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
3338 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
3339 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
3340 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
3341 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
3342 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
3343 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
3344 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
3345 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
3346 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
3347 the low-level debugger.
3348 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
3349 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
3350 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
3351 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
3353 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
3354 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
3355 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
3357 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
3358 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3359 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
3360 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
3361 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
3362 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
3363 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
3364 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
3365 (reported by James Y Knight)
3366 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
3367 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
3368 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
3369 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
3370 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
3371 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
3372 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
3373 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
3374 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
3375 workaround for bug 403.)
3376 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
3377 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3378 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3379 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
3381 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
3382 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
3383 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
3385 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
3386 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
3387 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
3388 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
3389 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
3391 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
3393 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
3394 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
3395 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
3398 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
3399 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
3400 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
3401 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
3402 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
3403 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
3404 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
3405 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
3406 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
3407 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
3408 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
3409 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
3410 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
3411 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
3412 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
3413 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
3414 documentation on package locks for details.
3415 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
3417 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
3418 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
3419 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
3420 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
3421 immediately available from the stream
3422 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
3423 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
3424 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
3425 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
3427 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
3428 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
3429 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
3431 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
3432 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
3433 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
3435 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
3436 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
3437 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
3438 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
3440 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
3441 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
3442 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
3443 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3444 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
3445 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
3446 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3447 ** sb-grovel supported
3448 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
3449 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
3450 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
3451 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
3452 ** floating-point exception handling support
3453 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
3454 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3455 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
3456 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
3457 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
3458 structure accessors.
3459 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
3461 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
3462 defaults for optional parameters.
3463 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
3464 function, which is already optimized.
3466 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
3467 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
3468 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
3469 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
3470 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
3471 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
3472 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
3473 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
3474 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
3475 this change is to make it easier to distribute
3476 location-independent binaries.
3477 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
3478 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
3480 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
3481 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
3482 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
3483 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
3484 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
3485 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
3486 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
3487 Alastair Bridgewater)
3488 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
3489 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
3490 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3491 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
3492 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
3493 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
3494 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
3495 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
3496 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
3497 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
3498 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
3499 (thanks to James Knight)
3500 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
3501 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
3503 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
3504 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
3505 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
3506 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
3507 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
3508 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
3509 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
3510 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
3511 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
3512 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
3513 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
3514 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
3515 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
3516 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
3517 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
3518 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
3519 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
3520 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
3521 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
3522 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
3523 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
3525 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
3526 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
3527 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
3528 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3529 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
3530 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
3532 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
3533 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
3534 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
3535 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
3536 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
3537 many others over the years)
3538 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
3539 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
3540 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
3542 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
3543 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
3544 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3545 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
3546 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
3547 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
3549 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
3551 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
3552 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
3553 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
3554 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
3555 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
3556 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
3557 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
3558 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
3559 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
3560 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
3561 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
3562 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3563 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
3564 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3566 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
3567 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3568 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
3569 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
3570 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
3571 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
3572 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
3573 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
3574 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
3575 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3576 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
3577 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
3578 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
3579 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
3580 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
3581 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
3582 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
3583 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3584 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
3585 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
3587 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
3588 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3589 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
3590 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
3591 index variables in LOOP
3592 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
3593 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3594 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
3595 that don't have a docstring
3597 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
3598 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3599 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
3600 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
3601 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
3602 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
3603 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
3604 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
3605 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
3606 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
3607 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
3608 Costanza's "Closer" project)
3609 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
3610 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
3612 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
3613 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
3614 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
3615 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
3616 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
3617 and Pascal Costanza)
3618 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
3619 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
3620 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
3621 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
3622 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3623 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
3624 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
3625 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
3626 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3627 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
3628 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3629 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
3630 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3631 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
3632 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3633 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
3634 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
3635 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
3636 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
3638 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
3639 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3640 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
3641 floating point index variable or a negative step.
3643 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
3644 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
3645 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
3646 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
3647 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
3648 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3649 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
3650 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
3651 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
3652 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
3653 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
3654 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
3655 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
3656 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
3657 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3658 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
3659 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
3660 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
3661 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
3662 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
3663 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
3664 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3665 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
3666 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3667 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
3668 and dump core on SIGQUIT
3670 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
3671 from their parents (see manual)
3672 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
3673 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
3674 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
3675 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
3676 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
3677 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
3679 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3680 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
3681 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
3682 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
3684 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
3685 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
3686 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
3688 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
3689 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
3690 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
3691 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
3692 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
3693 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
3694 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
3695 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
3696 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
3697 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
3698 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
3699 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
3700 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
3701 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
3703 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
3704 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
3705 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
3707 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
3708 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
3710 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
3711 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3712 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
3713 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
3714 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
3715 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
3716 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
3717 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
3718 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
3720 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
3721 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
3722 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
3723 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
3724 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
3725 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
3727 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
3729 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
3730 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
3731 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
3732 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
3733 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
3734 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
3735 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
3736 classes; see the manual for more details;
3737 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
3738 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
3739 requested slot ordering.
3741 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
3743 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
3744 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
3746 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
3748 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
3749 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
3750 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
3751 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
3752 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3753 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
3754 the :method-class keyword argument.
3756 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
3757 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
3758 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
3759 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3760 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
3761 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3762 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
3763 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3764 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
3765 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
3766 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
3768 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
3769 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
3770 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
3771 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
3772 is switched on or off
3773 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
3774 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
3775 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
3777 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
3778 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3779 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
3780 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
3781 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3782 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
3783 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
3784 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
3785 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
3787 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
3788 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
3789 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
3790 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
3791 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
3792 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
3793 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
3795 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
3796 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
3797 not prevent gc from running
3798 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
3799 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
3800 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
3801 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
3802 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
3803 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
3804 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
3805 an inline 32-bit rotation.
3807 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
3808 there is only one thread in the session
3809 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
3810 written to in another
3811 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
3812 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
3814 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
3815 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
3817 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
3818 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3819 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
3820 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
3821 the orignal arguments.
3822 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
3824 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
3825 name a compiled function.
3826 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
3827 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
3828 derivation were fixed.
3829 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
3830 list-form FUNCTION type.
3831 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
3832 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
3833 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
3835 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
3836 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
3837 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
3838 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
3839 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
3840 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
3842 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
3843 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
3844 of a select system call
3845 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
3847 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
3848 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
3850 * various error reporting improvements.
3851 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
3852 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3853 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
3854 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
3855 code and foreign data with the same name.
3857 ** added x86-64 support
3858 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
3859 objects instead of thread ids
3860 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
3861 starting up or going down
3862 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
3863 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
3864 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
3865 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
3866 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
3867 an inappropriate moment
3868 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
3869 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
3870 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
3871 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3872 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
3873 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
3874 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
3876 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
3877 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
3878 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
3879 range before calling Unix time functions
3881 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
3882 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
3883 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3884 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
3885 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
3886 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
3887 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3888 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
3889 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
3890 for more information.
3891 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
3892 pathname is a directory pathname.
3893 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
3894 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
3896 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
3897 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
3898 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
3899 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
3900 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
3901 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
3903 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
3904 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
3905 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
3906 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
3907 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
3908 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
3909 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3910 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
3911 the PowerPC platform.
3912 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
3913 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
3915 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
3916 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
3917 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
3918 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
3919 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
3920 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3922 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
3923 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
3924 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
3925 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
3926 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
3927 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3928 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
3929 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
3930 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
3931 as the name of a type, or vice versa
3932 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
3933 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
3934 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
3935 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
3936 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
3937 FLET or MACROLET forms
3938 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
3940 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
3942 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
3945 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
3946 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
3947 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
3948 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
3949 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
3950 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
3951 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
3952 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
3953 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
3954 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
3955 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
3956 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
3957 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
3958 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
3959 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
3960 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3961 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
3962 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3963 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
3964 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
3965 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
3966 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
3968 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3969 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
3970 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
3971 a file has the stream as its datum.
3972 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
3973 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
3974 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
3975 a correct expected type
3976 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
3977 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
3978 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
3979 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
3980 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
3981 on broadcast streams.
3983 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
3984 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3985 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
3986 --disable-debugger option instead.
3987 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
3989 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
3990 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
3991 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
3992 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
3993 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
3994 has been added to the manual.
3995 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
3996 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
3997 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
3998 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
3999 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
4000 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
4001 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
4002 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
4003 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
4004 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
4006 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
4007 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
4008 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
4009 (reported by Rajat Datta).
4010 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
4011 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
4013 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
4014 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
4015 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
4016 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
4017 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
4018 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
4019 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
4020 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
4021 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
4022 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
4023 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
4024 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
4025 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
4026 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
4027 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
4028 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
4029 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4030 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
4031 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
4033 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
4035 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
4036 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
4037 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
4038 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
4039 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
4041 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
4042 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
4043 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
4044 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
4045 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4046 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
4047 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
4049 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4050 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
4051 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
4053 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
4054 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
4055 types for complex arguments better.
4056 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
4058 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
4059 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
4061 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
4062 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
4063 resulting in GC crashes.
4064 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
4066 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
4069 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
4070 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
4071 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
4072 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
4073 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
4074 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
4075 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
4076 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
4077 returning to the top level.
4078 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
4079 global optimization policy.
4080 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
4081 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
4082 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
4084 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
4085 various incompatible changes.
4086 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
4087 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
4088 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
4089 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
4090 level local call to FOO".
4091 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
4092 now have more legible printed representation
4093 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
4094 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
4095 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
4096 explicitly requested.
4097 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
4098 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
4099 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
4100 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
4101 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
4103 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
4104 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
4105 (reported by Lutz Euler)
4106 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
4107 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4108 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
4109 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
4110 the specializer is now possible.
4111 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
4112 face of package deletion.
4113 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
4114 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
4115 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
4116 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
4117 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
4118 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
4119 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
4120 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
4121 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4122 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
4124 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4125 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
4126 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
4127 correctable errors to be signalled.
4128 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
4129 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
4132 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
4133 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
4134 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
4136 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
4137 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
4138 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
4139 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
4140 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
4141 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
4142 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
4143 related to the ~@F format directive.
4144 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
4146 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
4147 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
4148 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
4149 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
4151 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
4153 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
4154 coerce function designators to functions.
4155 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
4156 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
4157 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
4158 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
4159 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
4160 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
4161 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4162 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
4163 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
4164 start of the buffer at the next read.
4165 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
4166 passing it through to OPEN.
4167 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
4168 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
4169 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
4170 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
4171 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
4172 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
4173 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
4174 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
4176 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
4177 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
4178 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
4179 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
4180 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4181 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
4183 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4184 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
4185 secondary constituent character trait.
4186 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
4188 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
4190 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
4191 works more reliably.
4192 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
4193 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
4194 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
4196 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
4197 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
4199 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
4200 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
4201 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
4202 and reloading shared object files.
4203 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4204 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
4206 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
4207 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
4208 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
4210 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
4211 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
4213 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
4215 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
4216 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
4217 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
4218 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4219 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
4220 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
4221 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
4223 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
4224 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
4226 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
4227 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
4228 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
4229 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
4230 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
4232 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
4233 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
4234 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4235 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
4236 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
4237 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
4238 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
4239 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
4240 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
4241 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
4242 lisp characters are not eight bits.
4243 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4244 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
4245 the correct number of arguments.
4246 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
4247 to displaced strings.
4248 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
4249 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
4251 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
4252 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
4253 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
4254 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
4255 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
4256 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
4257 available at runtime.
4258 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
4259 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
4260 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
4261 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4262 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
4263 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
4264 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
4265 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
4266 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
4267 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
4268 of lambda-list keywords.
4269 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
4270 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
4272 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
4273 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
4274 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4275 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
4276 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
4277 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
4278 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
4280 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
4281 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
4282 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
4283 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
4284 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
4286 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4287 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
4288 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
4289 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
4290 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
4291 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4292 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
4294 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
4295 parameters correctly.
4296 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
4297 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
4298 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
4300 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
4303 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
4304 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
4305 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
4306 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
4308 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
4309 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
4310 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
4311 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
4312 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
4313 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
4314 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
4315 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
4316 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
4318 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
4319 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
4321 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
4323 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
4324 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
4325 (reported by Bruno Haible)
4326 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
4328 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
4329 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4330 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
4331 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
4332 (reported by David Morse)
4333 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
4334 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4335 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
4336 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4337 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
4338 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4339 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
4340 now exists, an signals an error.
4341 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
4342 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
4343 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4344 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
4345 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4346 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
4347 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
4348 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4349 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
4350 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4351 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
4352 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
4354 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
4355 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
4356 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
4357 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
4358 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4359 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
4360 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
4361 specialized array element types.
4362 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
4363 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4364 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
4365 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4366 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
4367 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
4368 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
4369 Wragg for the simple test case)
4370 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4371 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
4373 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
4374 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
4375 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
4376 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
4377 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
4379 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
4381 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
4382 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
4383 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
4384 references to global functions.
4385 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
4387 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
4389 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
4390 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4391 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
4392 supported platforms.
4393 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
4394 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
4395 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
4396 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
4397 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
4398 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
4399 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
4400 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
4401 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
4402 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
4403 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
4404 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
4405 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
4407 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
4408 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4409 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
4410 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
4411 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
4412 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
4414 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
4415 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
4417 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
4418 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
4419 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
4420 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4421 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
4422 returns the right answer.
4423 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
4425 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
4427 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
4428 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
4430 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
4431 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
4433 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
4434 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
4435 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
4436 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
4437 the supported interface.
4438 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
4439 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
4440 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4441 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
4442 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
4443 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
4444 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
4445 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
4446 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
4447 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
4448 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
4449 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
4450 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
4451 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
4452 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
4453 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
4454 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
4455 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
4456 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
4457 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
4458 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
4459 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
4460 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
4461 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
4462 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
4463 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
4464 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4465 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
4466 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
4468 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
4469 * incompatible change: the internal functions
4470 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
4471 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
4472 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
4473 instead of the old functions.
4474 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
4475 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
4477 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
4478 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
4480 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
4481 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
4482 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
4483 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
4485 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
4486 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4487 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
4488 (reported by Rick Taube)
4489 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
4490 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
4491 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
4492 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
4494 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
4495 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
4496 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
4497 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
4498 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
4499 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
4500 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
4501 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
4502 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
4503 represented relative to default pathnames.
4504 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
4505 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
4506 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
4508 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
4509 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
4510 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
4512 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4513 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
4514 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
4515 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
4517 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
4519 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
4520 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
4521 conditional newlines.
4522 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
4523 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
4524 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
4526 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
4527 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
4529 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
4530 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
4531 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
4532 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
4533 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
4534 compiled in unconditionally.
4535 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
4536 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
4537 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
4538 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
4539 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
4541 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
4542 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
4543 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
4544 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
4545 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
4546 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
4547 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
4548 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
4549 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
4550 an implementation-internal package.
4551 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
4553 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
4554 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
4555 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
4556 bodies are now more legible.
4557 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
4558 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
4559 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
4560 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
4561 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4562 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
4563 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
4565 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
4566 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
4567 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
4568 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
4569 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
4570 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
4571 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
4572 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
4573 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
4574 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
4576 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
4577 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
4578 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
4579 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
4580 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
4581 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
4582 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
4583 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
4584 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
4585 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
4586 system even when most of them are idle
4587 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
4588 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4589 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
4591 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
4592 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
4593 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
4594 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
4595 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
4597 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
4598 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
4599 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
4600 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
4601 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
4602 string for information on the protocol.
4603 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
4604 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
4606 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
4607 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
4609 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
4610 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
4611 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
4612 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
4613 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
4614 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
4616 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
4617 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
4619 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
4620 move between its address being taken and the call to
4621 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
4622 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
4623 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
4624 instances corresponding to C structs.
4626 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
4627 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
4628 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
4629 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
4630 has implications for memory management of client code
4631 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
4632 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
4633 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
4634 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
4635 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
4636 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
4637 quality should be considered deprecated.
4638 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
4639 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
4640 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
4641 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
4642 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
4644 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
4645 designator as the defaults argument.
4646 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
4647 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
4648 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4649 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
4650 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
4652 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
4654 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
4655 (thanks to Zach Beane)
4656 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
4657 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
4658 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4659 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
4661 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
4662 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4663 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
4664 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
4665 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
4666 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
4667 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4668 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
4669 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
4670 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
4671 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
4672 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4673 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
4674 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
4675 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
4676 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
4677 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
4679 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
4680 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
4681 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
4683 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
4684 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4685 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
4686 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
4687 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
4688 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
4689 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4690 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
4691 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
4693 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
4694 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
4696 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
4697 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
4699 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
4700 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
4701 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
4702 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
4704 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
4705 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
4706 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4707 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
4708 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
4709 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
4710 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
4711 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
4713 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
4714 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
4715 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
4717 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
4718 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
4720 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4721 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
4723 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
4724 from local to shared slots.
4725 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
4726 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
4727 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
4728 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
4730 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
4731 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
4732 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
4733 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
4734 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
4735 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
4736 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
4737 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
4738 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
4740 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
4742 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
4744 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
4745 print using #P"..." syntax.
4747 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
4748 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
4749 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
4750 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
4751 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
4752 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
4753 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
4754 * [placeholder for DX summary]
4755 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
4756 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
4757 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
4758 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
4759 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
4760 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
4761 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
4762 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
4763 the test case to Dave Roberts)
4764 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
4765 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
4766 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
4767 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
4768 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
4769 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
4770 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
4771 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4772 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
4773 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
4774 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
4775 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
4776 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4777 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
4778 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
4781 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
4782 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
4783 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
4784 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
4785 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
4786 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
4787 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
4788 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
4789 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
4790 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4791 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
4792 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
4793 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
4795 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
4796 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
4798 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
4799 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
4800 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4801 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
4802 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4803 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
4805 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
4806 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
4807 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
4809 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
4811 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
4813 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
4814 their output stream on EOF from read.
4815 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
4816 have been read to end-of-file.
4817 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
4819 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
4820 description of determination of which consecutive characters
4822 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
4823 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
4824 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4825 less than 10 works correctly.
4826 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4827 more than 10 works correctly.
4828 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
4829 the readtable currently in effect.
4831 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
4832 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
4833 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
4834 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
4835 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
4836 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
4837 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
4838 should usually be replaced by
4839 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
4840 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
4841 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
4842 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
4843 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
4844 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
4845 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
4846 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
4848 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
4849 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
4850 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4851 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
4852 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
4853 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4854 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
4855 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
4856 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
4857 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
4858 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
4859 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
4860 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
4862 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
4863 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
4864 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
4865 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4866 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
4867 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
4868 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
4869 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4870 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
4871 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
4872 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
4873 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
4874 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
4875 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
4876 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4877 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
4878 non-local entry points.
4879 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
4881 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4882 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
4884 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
4885 host is already defined.
4886 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
4888 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
4889 or not a character is whitespace.
4890 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
4891 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
4892 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
4894 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
4895 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
4897 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
4899 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
4900 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
4901 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
4902 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
4903 designator argument does not designate a stream.
4904 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
4905 examining the synonym.
4906 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
4908 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
4909 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
4911 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
4912 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
4913 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
4914 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
4915 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
4916 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
4917 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
4918 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
4919 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
4920 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4921 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
4922 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
4924 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
4925 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
4926 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4927 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
4928 stream position information.
4929 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
4930 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
4931 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
4932 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
4933 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4934 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
4936 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
4937 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
4939 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4940 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4941 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
4942 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
4943 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
4944 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
4945 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
4947 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
4949 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
4950 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
4951 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
4952 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
4953 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
4954 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
4955 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
4956 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
4957 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
4958 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
4959 the "SYS" logical host.
4960 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
4961 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
4962 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
4963 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4964 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
4965 now each have their own history, command character, and other
4966 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4967 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4968 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
4970 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
4971 shift greater than 32.
4972 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
4973 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
4974 in some circumstances.
4976 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
4977 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
4978 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
4979 environments like SLIME.
4980 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
4981 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
4982 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
4983 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
4984 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
4985 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
4986 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
4987 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
4988 argument types for all arguments.
4989 * various threading fixes
4990 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
4991 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
4992 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
4993 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
4995 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
4996 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
4997 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
4998 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
4999 arguments to a full call.
5000 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
5001 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
5002 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
5003 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
5005 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
5006 inserts a space where necessary.
5007 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
5008 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
5009 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
5010 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
5011 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
5012 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
5013 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
5014 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
5015 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
5016 counter now raises a meaningful error.
5017 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
5018 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
5020 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
5021 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
5022 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
5024 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
5026 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5027 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
5028 argument and negative second.
5029 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
5030 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
5031 interval, containing 0.
5032 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
5034 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
5035 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
5037 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
5038 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
5039 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
5040 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
5041 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
5042 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
5043 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
5044 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
5045 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
5046 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
5047 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
5048 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
5049 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
5050 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
5051 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
5052 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
5053 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
5054 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
5055 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
5056 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
5057 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
5058 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
5059 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
5060 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
5061 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
5062 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
5063 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
5064 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
5065 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
5067 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
5068 platform now returns the right answer.
5069 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
5070 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
5071 precomputation is now tunable.
5072 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
5073 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
5074 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
5075 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
5076 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
5077 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
5078 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
5079 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
5080 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
5081 has been added for the alpha.
5082 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
5083 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
5084 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
5085 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
5086 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
5087 MEMBER-types to numeric.
5088 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
5090 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
5091 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
5092 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
5094 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
5095 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5096 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
5097 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
5098 might be pseudo-atomic.
5099 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
5100 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
5102 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
5104 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
5106 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
5107 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
5108 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
5109 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
5110 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
5111 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
5113 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5114 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
5115 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
5116 small float arguments.
5117 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
5119 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
5120 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
5121 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
5122 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
5123 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
5124 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
5126 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
5128 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
5129 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
5130 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
5131 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
5132 with negative last argument.
5133 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
5134 an error during type derivation.
5135 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
5137 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
5138 generates a 32-bit binary.
5139 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
5140 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
5141 data structures referred to above).
5143 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
5144 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
5145 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
5146 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
5147 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
5148 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
5149 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
5150 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
5151 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
5152 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5153 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
5154 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
5156 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
5157 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
5159 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
5160 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
5161 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
5162 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
5163 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
5164 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
5165 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
5166 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
5167 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
5168 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
5169 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
5170 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
5171 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
5172 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
5173 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
5174 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
5175 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
5176 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5177 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
5178 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
5179 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
5180 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
5181 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5182 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
5183 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
5184 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
5185 optimization quality.
5186 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
5187 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
5188 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
5189 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
5190 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
5191 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5192 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
5193 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
5194 types form a lattice under type intersection.
5195 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
5196 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
5197 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
5198 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
5199 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
5200 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
5201 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
5202 calling the generic function.
5203 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
5204 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
5205 obscure ANSI requirements
5207 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
5208 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
5209 garbage, confusing the compiler.
5210 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
5211 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
5212 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
5213 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
5214 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
5215 circumstances could go off-by-one.
5216 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
5218 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
5219 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
5220 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
5221 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
5222 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
5223 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
5224 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
5225 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
5226 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
5227 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
5228 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
5229 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
5230 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
5231 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
5232 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
5233 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
5234 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
5235 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
5236 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
5237 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
5239 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
5240 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
5241 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
5242 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
5244 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
5245 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
5246 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
5247 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
5248 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
5249 provide helpful disassembly notes.
5250 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
5251 the class in more cases than previously.
5252 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
5253 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5254 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
5255 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
5256 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
5257 without lambda list.
5258 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
5259 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
5260 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5261 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
5262 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
5263 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
5265 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
5266 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
5267 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
5269 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
5270 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
5271 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
5272 were silently accepted).
5273 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
5274 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
5275 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
5276 to warn on static type mismatches and function
5277 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
5278 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
5279 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
5280 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
5281 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
5282 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
5283 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
5284 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
5285 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
5286 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
5288 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
5289 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
5290 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
5291 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
5292 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
5293 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
5295 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
5296 keywords or constants is permissible.
5297 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
5298 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
5299 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
5300 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
5301 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
5302 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
5303 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
5304 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
5306 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
5307 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
5308 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
5309 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
5310 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5311 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
5312 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
5314 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
5316 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
5317 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
5318 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
5319 respectively change and preserve the value.
5320 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
5321 is now better at handling symbol macros.
5322 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
5323 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
5324 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
5325 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
5326 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
5327 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
5328 their use properly signals an error now.
5329 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
5330 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
5331 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
5332 * fixed simple vector readable printing
5333 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
5334 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
5335 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
5336 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
5337 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
5338 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
5339 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5340 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
5341 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5342 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
5343 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
5344 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5345 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
5346 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
5347 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
5348 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
5349 causes a type error.
5350 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
5351 association between the name and a class.
5352 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
5353 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
5354 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5355 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
5356 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
5357 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
5359 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
5360 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
5361 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
5362 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
5364 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
5365 which its argument is a member.
5366 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
5367 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
5368 otherwise, it creates a new class.
5369 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
5370 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
5371 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
5372 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
5373 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
5374 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
5376 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
5377 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
5378 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
5379 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
5380 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
5381 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
5382 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
5384 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
5385 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
5386 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
5387 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
5388 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
5389 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
5390 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
5391 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
5392 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
5393 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
5394 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
5395 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
5396 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5397 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
5399 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
5400 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
5401 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
5402 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
5403 superclasses are applied.
5404 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
5405 no method was removed.
5406 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
5407 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
5408 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
5409 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
5411 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
5413 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
5414 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
5415 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
5416 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
5417 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
5418 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
5419 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
5420 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
5421 function lambda list.
5422 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
5424 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
5425 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
5426 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
5427 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
5429 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
5430 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
5431 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
5432 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
5433 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
5434 they look for GNU "make".
5436 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
5437 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
5438 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
5439 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
5441 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
5442 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
5443 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
5444 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
5445 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
5446 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
5447 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
5448 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
5449 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
5450 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
5452 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
5453 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
5454 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
5455 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
5456 libraries, and will know who they are.
5457 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
5458 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
5459 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
5460 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
5461 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
5462 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
5463 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
5464 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
5466 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
5467 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
5468 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
5469 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
5470 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
5471 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
5472 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
5473 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
5474 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
5475 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
5476 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5477 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
5479 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
5480 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
5481 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
5482 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
5483 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
5484 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
5485 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
5486 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
5487 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
5489 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
5490 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
5491 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
5492 this you were probably losing anyway.
5493 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
5494 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
5495 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
5496 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
5497 with names from the CL package.
5498 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
5499 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
5500 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
5501 documentation string.
5502 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5503 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
5505 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
5506 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
5507 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
5508 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
5510 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
5511 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
5513 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
5514 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5515 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
5517 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
5518 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
5519 arguments contain duplicated elements.
5520 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
5521 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
5522 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
5523 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
5524 in question is unbound.
5525 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
5526 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
5527 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
5528 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
5529 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
5531 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
5533 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
5534 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
5535 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
5536 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
5537 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
5538 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
5539 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
5540 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
5541 by Antonio Martinez)
5542 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
5543 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5544 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
5545 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
5546 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
5547 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
5548 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
5549 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5550 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
5551 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
5552 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
5553 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
5554 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
5555 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
5556 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
5557 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
5558 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
5559 on malformed property lists;
5561 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
5562 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
5563 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
5564 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
5565 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
5566 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
5567 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
5568 modules in this release include:
5569 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
5570 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
5571 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
5572 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
5573 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
5575 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
5576 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
5577 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5578 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
5579 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
5580 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
5581 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
5582 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
5584 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
5585 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
5586 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
5587 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
5588 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
5589 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
5590 the lexical environment.
5591 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
5592 unprintable packages can now be defined.
5593 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
5594 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5595 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
5596 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5597 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
5598 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
5599 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
5600 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
5601 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
5602 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
5603 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
5604 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
5605 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5606 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
5607 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
5608 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
5609 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
5610 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
5611 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
5612 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
5613 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
5614 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
5615 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
5617 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
5618 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
5619 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
5620 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5621 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
5622 not just nonnegative fixnums;
5623 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
5624 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
5625 freshly-consed result bit-array);
5626 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
5628 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
5629 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
5631 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
5632 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
5633 cases are accurately computed;
5634 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
5635 if it is in the last clause;
5636 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
5638 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
5639 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
5640 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
5641 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
5643 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
5644 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
5645 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
5646 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
5647 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
5649 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
5650 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
5651 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
5652 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
5654 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5655 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
5656 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
5657 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
5658 not cause a type error;
5659 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
5661 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
5662 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
5663 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
5664 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
5665 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
5666 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
5667 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
5668 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
5670 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
5671 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
5672 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
5673 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
5674 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
5675 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
5677 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
5678 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
5680 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
5681 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
5682 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
5683 only for symbols in the CL package.
5684 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
5685 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5686 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
5687 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
5688 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
5690 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5691 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
5692 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
5693 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
5694 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
5695 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
5696 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
5697 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
5698 conditional loop clause;
5699 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
5700 signals a type error iff it should.
5701 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5702 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
5703 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
5704 argument) no longer signals an error;
5705 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
5706 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
5707 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
5709 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
5710 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
5711 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
5713 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
5714 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
5715 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
5716 functionality on said platforms verified.
5717 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
5718 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
5720 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
5721 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
5722 component indicating that directory.
5723 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
5724 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
5725 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
5726 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
5727 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5728 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
5730 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
5731 primary methods with no specializers;
5732 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
5734 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
5735 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
5736 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
5737 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
5739 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
5740 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
5741 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
5743 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
5744 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
5745 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
5746 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
5747 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
5748 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
5749 class STANDARD-CLASS;
5750 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
5751 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5752 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
5753 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
5755 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
5756 value producing form;
5757 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
5758 variables are bound and made to have no value;
5759 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
5761 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
5762 is not a valid sequence index;
5763 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
5764 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
5765 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5766 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
5768 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
5769 symbol-macro places;
5770 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
5771 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
5773 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
5775 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
5777 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
5778 invariant when deleting code.
5779 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
5780 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
5782 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
5783 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5784 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
5786 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
5787 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
5789 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
5790 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
5791 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5792 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
5794 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
5795 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5796 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
5797 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
5799 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
5800 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
5801 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
5802 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
5803 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5804 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
5805 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
5806 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
5807 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
5808 sbcl and .core files.)
5809 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
5810 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
5811 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
5812 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
5813 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
5814 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5815 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
5817 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
5818 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
5819 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
5820 argument precedence order.
5821 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
5822 derived types contradict their declared type.
5823 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
5824 so it can be non-toplevel.
5825 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
5826 implementation of DEFMACRO).
5827 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
5828 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
5829 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
5831 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
5832 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
5833 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
5834 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
5835 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
5836 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
5837 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
5838 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
5839 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
5840 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
5841 symbol macro only once
5842 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
5843 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
5844 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
5847 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
5848 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
5849 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
5850 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
5851 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
5852 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
5853 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
5854 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
5855 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
5856 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5857 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
5858 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
5860 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
5861 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
5862 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
5863 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
5864 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5865 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
5867 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
5869 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
5870 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
5871 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
5872 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
5873 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5874 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
5875 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
5876 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
5877 ways in different special cases
5878 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
5880 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
5881 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
5882 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
5883 are no longer optimized away.
5884 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
5885 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
5886 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
5887 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
5888 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
5889 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
5890 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
5891 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
5894 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
5895 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
5896 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
5897 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
5898 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
5899 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
5900 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
5902 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
5903 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
5904 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
5905 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
5906 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
5907 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
5908 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
5909 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
5910 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
5911 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
5912 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
5913 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
5914 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
5915 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
5916 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
5917 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
5918 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
5919 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5920 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
5921 that are names of constants or global variables.
5922 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
5923 alien routines with docstrings.
5924 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
5925 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
5927 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
5928 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
5929 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
5930 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5931 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
5932 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5933 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
5934 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
5935 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
5936 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5937 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
5938 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
5939 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
5940 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
5941 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
5942 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
5943 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
5944 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
5945 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
5946 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
5947 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
5948 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
5949 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
5951 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
5952 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
5954 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
5955 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
5956 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
5957 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
5958 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
5959 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
5960 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
5961 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
5962 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
5963 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
5965 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
5966 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
5967 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
5968 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
5969 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
5970 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
5971 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
5972 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
5973 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
5974 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
5975 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
5976 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
5977 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
5978 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
5979 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
5980 is no longer a static symbol.)
5982 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
5983 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
5984 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
5985 bootstrapping under CLISP.
5986 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
5988 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
5989 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
5991 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
5992 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
5993 to David Lichteblau)
5994 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
5995 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
5996 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
5998 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
5999 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
6000 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
6001 count as they should.
6002 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
6003 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
6004 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
6005 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
6006 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
6007 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
6008 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
6009 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
6010 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
6011 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
6012 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
6013 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
6014 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
6015 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
6016 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
6018 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
6019 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
6020 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
6022 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
6024 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
6025 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
6026 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
6027 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
6028 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
6029 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
6030 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
6032 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
6033 to Christophe Rhodes)
6034 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
6035 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
6036 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
6037 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
6038 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
6039 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
6040 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
6042 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
6043 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
6044 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
6045 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
6046 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
6047 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
6048 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
6049 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
6050 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
6051 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
6052 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
6053 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
6054 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
6056 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
6057 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
6058 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
6059 INFO database to support symbol macros.
6060 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
6061 (thanks to coreythomas)
6062 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
6063 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
6064 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
6065 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
6066 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
6068 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
6069 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
6070 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
6071 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
6072 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
6073 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
6074 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
6075 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
6076 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
6077 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6078 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
6079 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
6080 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
6082 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
6083 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
6086 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
6087 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
6088 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
6089 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
6090 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
6091 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
6092 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
6093 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
6094 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
6095 systems than the old 4M value was)
6096 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
6097 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
6098 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
6099 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
6100 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
6101 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
6102 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
6104 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
6105 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
6106 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
6107 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
6108 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
6110 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
6111 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
6112 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
6113 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
6114 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
6115 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
6116 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
6117 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
6119 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
6120 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
6121 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
6122 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
6123 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
6124 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
6125 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
6126 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
6128 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
6129 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
6130 * several changes related to debugging:
6131 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
6132 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
6133 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
6134 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
6135 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
6136 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
6137 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
6140 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
6142 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
6143 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
6144 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
6145 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
6146 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
6147 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
6148 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
6149 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
6151 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
6152 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
6153 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
6154 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6155 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
6156 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
6157 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
6158 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
6159 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
6160 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
6161 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
6162 file format number to change again.
6164 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
6165 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
6166 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
6167 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
6169 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
6170 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
6171 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
6172 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
6173 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
6174 FUNCALL on the result.
6175 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
6176 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
6177 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
6178 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
6179 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
6180 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
6181 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
6182 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
6184 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
6185 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
6186 the old compiler produced.
6187 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
6188 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
6189 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
6190 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
6191 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
6192 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
6193 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
6194 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
6195 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
6196 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
6197 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
6198 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
6199 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
6200 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
6201 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
6202 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
6203 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
6204 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
6205 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
6206 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
6207 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
6208 straightened out in some future version.)
6209 * minor incompatible changes:
6210 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
6211 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
6212 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
6213 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
6214 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
6215 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
6216 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
6217 implementation dependent:
6218 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
6219 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
6220 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
6221 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
6222 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
6223 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
6224 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
6225 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
6227 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
6229 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
6230 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
6231 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
6232 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
6233 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
6234 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
6235 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
6236 are no longer used for output.
6237 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
6238 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
6239 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
6240 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
6241 increasing it even more.)
6242 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
6243 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
6244 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
6246 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
6247 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
6248 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
6249 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
6250 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
6251 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
6252 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
6253 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
6254 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
6255 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
6256 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
6257 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
6258 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
6259 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
6260 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
6261 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
6262 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
6263 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
6264 compilation of code which calls such functions.
6265 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
6266 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
6267 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
6268 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
6269 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
6270 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
6271 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
6272 built into the system.
6273 * many other bug fixes
6274 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
6275 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
6276 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
6277 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
6278 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
6280 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
6281 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
6282 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
6283 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
6284 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
6285 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
6286 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
6287 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
6288 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
6289 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
6290 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
6292 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
6293 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
6294 and several other LOOP problems as well
6295 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
6296 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
6297 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
6298 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
6299 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
6300 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
6301 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
6302 *** a bug in APROPOS
6303 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
6304 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
6305 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
6306 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
6307 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
6308 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
6309 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
6310 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
6311 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
6312 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
6313 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
6314 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
6315 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
6316 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
6317 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
6319 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
6320 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
6321 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
6322 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
6323 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
6324 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
6325 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
6326 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
6327 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
6328 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
6329 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
6330 some of which are apparent above.
6332 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
6333 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
6334 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
6335 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
6336 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
6337 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
6338 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
6339 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
6340 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
6341 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
6342 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
6343 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
6344 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
6345 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
6346 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
6347 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
6348 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
6349 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
6350 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
6351 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
6352 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
6353 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
6354 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
6355 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
6356 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
6357 different return types.
6358 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
6359 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
6360 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
6361 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
6362 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
6363 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
6364 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
6365 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
6366 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
6367 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
6369 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
6370 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
6371 does the right thing.
6372 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
6373 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
6374 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
6375 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
6376 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
6377 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
6378 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
6379 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
6380 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
6381 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
6382 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
6383 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
6384 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
6385 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
6386 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
6387 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
6388 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
6389 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
6390 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
6391 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
6392 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
6393 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
6394 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
6395 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
6396 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
6397 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
6398 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
6399 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
6400 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
6401 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
6402 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
6403 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
6404 since historically most system changes which required version
6405 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
6406 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
6409 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
6410 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
6411 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
6412 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
6413 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
6414 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
6415 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
6416 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
6417 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
6418 half a dozen others elsewhere
6419 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
6420 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
6421 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
6422 as flaky as they were.
6423 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
6424 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
6425 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
6426 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
6427 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
6428 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
6429 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
6430 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
6432 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
6433 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
6434 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
6435 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
6436 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
6437 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
6438 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
6439 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
6440 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
6441 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
6442 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
6443 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
6444 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
6445 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
6446 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
6447 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
6448 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
6449 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
6450 more obscure bugs as well
6451 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
6452 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
6453 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
6454 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
6455 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
6456 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
6457 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
6458 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
6459 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
6460 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
6461 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
6463 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
6464 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
6466 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
6468 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
6469 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
6470 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
6471 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
6472 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
6473 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
6474 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
6475 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
6476 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
6477 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
6478 are local in this sense.)
6479 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
6480 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
6481 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
6482 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
6483 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
6484 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
6485 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
6486 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
6487 system's STREAM objects.
6488 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
6489 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6490 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
6491 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6492 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
6493 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
6494 environment from the original process instead of starting the
6495 new process in an empty environment.
6496 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
6497 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
6498 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
6499 for porting convenience.
6500 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
6501 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
6503 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
6505 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
6506 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
6507 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
6508 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
6509 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
6510 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
6511 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
6512 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
6513 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
6514 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
6515 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
6516 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
6517 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
6518 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
6519 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
6520 many fewer weird special cases.
6521 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
6522 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
6523 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6524 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
6525 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
6526 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
6527 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
6528 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
6529 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
6530 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
6531 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
6534 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
6536 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
6537 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
6538 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
6540 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
6541 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
6542 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
6543 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
6544 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
6545 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
6546 should be constructed the same way as before.
6547 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
6548 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
6549 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
6550 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
6551 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
6552 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
6553 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
6554 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
6555 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
6556 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
6557 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
6558 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
6559 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
6560 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
6561 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
6562 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
6563 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
6564 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
6565 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
6566 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
6567 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
6568 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
6570 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
6571 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
6572 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
6573 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
6574 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
6575 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
6576 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
6577 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
6579 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
6581 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
6582 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
6583 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
6584 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
6585 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
6587 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
6588 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
6589 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
6590 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
6591 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
6592 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
6593 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
6594 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
6595 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
6596 and Douglas Crosher.
6597 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
6598 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
6599 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
6601 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
6602 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
6603 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
6604 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
6605 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
6606 undefined function error.
6607 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
6608 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
6609 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
6610 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
6611 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
6612 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
6613 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
6614 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
6615 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
6616 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
6617 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
6618 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
6619 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
6621 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
6623 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
6624 CVS repository on my home machine).
6625 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
6626 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
6627 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
6628 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
6629 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
6630 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
6631 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
6632 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
6633 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
6634 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
6635 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
6636 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
6637 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
6638 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
6639 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
6640 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
6641 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
6642 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
6643 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
6644 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
6645 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
6646 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
6648 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
6649 FreeBSD have been added.
6650 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
6651 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
6652 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
6653 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
6654 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
6655 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
6657 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
6658 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
6659 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
6660 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
6661 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
6662 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
6663 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
6664 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
6666 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
6667 away by constant folding
6668 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
6669 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
6670 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
6671 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
6672 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
6673 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
6674 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
6675 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
6676 diff-related operations.
6677 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
6678 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
6680 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
6682 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
6683 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
6684 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
6685 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
6686 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
6687 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
6688 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
6689 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
6690 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
6691 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
6692 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
6693 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
6694 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
6695 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
6696 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
6697 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
6698 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
6699 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
6700 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
6701 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
6702 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
6703 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
6704 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
6705 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
6706 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
6707 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
6708 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
6709 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
6710 instead of (VALUES T T).
6711 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
6712 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
6713 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
6714 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
6715 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
6716 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
6717 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
6718 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
6719 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
6720 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
6721 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
6722 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
6723 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
6724 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
6725 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
6726 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
6727 type will be interpreted at runtime.
6728 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
6729 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
6730 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
6731 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
6732 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
6733 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
6734 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
6735 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
6736 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
6737 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
6738 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
6739 fasl files for cold load.
6740 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
6741 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
6742 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
6743 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
6744 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
6745 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
6746 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
6747 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
6748 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
6749 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
6750 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
6752 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
6753 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
6754 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
6755 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
6756 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
6757 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
6758 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
6759 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
6760 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
6761 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
6762 renamed some files to increase consistency.
6763 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
6764 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
6765 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
6766 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
6767 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
6768 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
6770 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
6772 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
6773 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
6774 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
6775 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
6776 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
6777 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
6778 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
6779 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
6780 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
6781 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
6782 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
6783 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
6784 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
6785 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
6786 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
6787 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
6788 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
6789 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
6791 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
6792 as required by ANSI.
6793 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
6794 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
6795 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
6796 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
6798 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
6799 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
6800 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
6801 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
6802 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
6803 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
6804 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
6805 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
6807 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
6808 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
6809 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
6810 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6812 is now basically equivalent to
6813 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6814 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
6816 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
6817 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
6818 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
6819 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
6820 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
6821 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
6822 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
6823 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
6824 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
6825 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
6826 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
6827 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
6828 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
6829 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
6830 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
6831 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
6832 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
6833 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
6834 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
6835 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
6836 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
6837 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
6838 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
6840 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
6842 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
6843 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
6844 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
6845 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
6846 GNUMAKE environment variable.
6847 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
6848 can build without error under CMU CL.
6850 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
6852 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
6853 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
6854 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
6855 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
6856 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
6857 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
6858 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
6859 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
6860 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
6861 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
6862 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
6863 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
6864 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
6865 being initialized before the type system knew the final
6866 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
6867 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
6868 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
6869 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
6870 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
6871 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
6872 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
6873 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
6874 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
6875 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
6877 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
6878 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
6879 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
6880 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
6881 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
6882 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
6883 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
6884 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
6885 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
6886 it were currently supported.
6887 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
6888 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
6889 having to maintain patches.
6890 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
6891 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
6893 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
6895 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
6896 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
6897 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
6898 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
6899 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
6900 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
6901 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
6902 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
6903 * various new style warnings:
6904 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
6905 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
6906 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
6907 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
6908 as specified by ANSI.
6909 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
6910 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
6911 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
6912 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
6913 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
6914 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
6915 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
6916 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
6917 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
6918 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
6919 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
6920 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
6921 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
6922 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
6923 argument types can be determined at compile time.
6924 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
6925 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
6926 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
6927 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
6928 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
6929 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
6930 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
6933 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
6935 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
6936 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
6937 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
6938 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
6939 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
6940 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
6941 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
6942 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
6943 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
6945 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
6946 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
6947 the report form was printed.)
6948 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
6949 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
6950 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
6951 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
6952 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
6953 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
6954 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
6955 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
6956 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
6957 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
6958 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
6959 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
6960 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
6961 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
6962 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
6963 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
6964 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
6965 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
6966 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
6967 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
6968 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
6969 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
6970 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
6971 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
6972 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
6973 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
6974 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
6975 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
6976 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
6977 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
6978 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
6979 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
6980 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
6981 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
6982 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
6983 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
6984 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
6985 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
6986 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
6987 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
6988 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
6989 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
6990 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
6991 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
6992 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
6993 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
6994 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
6995 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
6996 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
6997 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
6998 know more about target types.
6999 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
7000 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
7001 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
7002 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
7003 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
7004 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
7006 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
7007 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
7008 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
7009 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
7010 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
7011 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
7012 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
7013 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
7014 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
7015 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
7016 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
7017 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
7018 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
7020 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
7023 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
7025 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
7026 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
7027 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
7028 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
7029 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
7030 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
7031 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
7032 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
7033 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
7034 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
7035 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
7036 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
7037 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
7038 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
7039 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
7040 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
7041 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
7042 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
7043 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
7044 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
7045 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
7046 invisible at the user level.)
7047 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
7048 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
7049 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
7051 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
7053 * tidied up "make.sh" script
7054 * tidied up system directory structure
7055 * better "clean.sh" behavior
7056 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
7057 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
7058 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
7059 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
7060 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
7061 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
7062 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
7063 * command line argument processing
7064 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
7065 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
7066 terminating SBCL on EOF
7067 * non-verbose GC by default
7068 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
7069 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
7070 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
7072 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
7073 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
7074 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
7075 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
7076 transformed along with everything else.
7077 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
7078 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
7079 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
7080 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
7081 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
7082 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
7083 debugging and testing purposes
7084 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
7085 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
7086 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
7087 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
7088 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
7089 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
7090 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
7092 * regularized formatting of source files
7093 * added an install.sh script
7094 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
7095 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
7096 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
7097 builds nicely on my old laptop.
7098 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
7099 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
7100 was not implemented)
7101 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
7102 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
7103 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
7104 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
7105 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
7107 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
7108 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
7109 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
7110 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
7111 COMPILE-FILE command)
7112 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
7113 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
7114 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
7115 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
7116 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
7117 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
7118 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
7119 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
7120 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
7121 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
7122 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
7123 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
7124 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
7125 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
7126 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
7128 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
7129 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
7130 known to be able to handle the current sources
7131 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
7132 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
7133 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
7134 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
7135 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
7136 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
7137 * removed host-oops.lisp
7138 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
7139 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
7140 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
7141 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
7142 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
7143 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by