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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.1.10
3 * enhancement: support building the manual under texinfo version 5.
5 * bug fix: undefined function errors are now properly reported on PPC and MIPS.
6 (regression since 1.1.9)
7 * bug fix: (funcall (function X junk)) didn't causes an error when X had a
9 Patch by Douglas Katzman.
10 * bug fix: signal a warning when defining a setf-function when a
11 setf-expander is already present.
12 Patch by Douglas Katzman.
13 * bug fix: improved threading on PPC.
14 * bug fix: ROOM works again on Windows.
15 * bug fix: Streams were flushed even when there was one byte still left in
16 the buffer. (lp#910213)
18 changes in sbcl-1.1.10 relative to sbcl-1.1.9:
19 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 3.0.2.
20 * optimization: stack frames are packed more efficiently on x86oids, which
21 ought to reduce the frequency of Methuselahn conservative references (it
22 certainly helps with gc.impure.lisp / BUG-936304 on x86).
23 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, integer negation forms like (- x) are now
24 recognized in modular arithmetic contexts, and compile to native negate,
25 rather than going through bignums only to keep the low bits.
26 * bug fix: Compiling potential modularic arithmetic forms does not cause type
27 errors when some integer types lack lower or upper bounds. (lp#1199127)
28 * bug fix: Non-trivial modular arithmetic forms are always cut to the right
29 bitwidth before being used in a non-modular context. (lp#1199428)
30 * bug fix: Multiple catch/unwind blocks in a single function are now
31 allocated in the right stack order on win32. (lp#1072739)
33 changes in sbcl-1.1.9 relative to sbcl-1.1.8:
34 * new feature: the contrib SB-GMP links with libgmp at runtime to speed
35 up arithmetic on bignums and ratios. (contributed by Stephan Frank)
36 * enhancement: disassemble now annotates some previously missing static
37 functions, like LENGTH.
38 * enhancement: clean.sh now also cleans doc/internals.
39 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-SYMBOL-WITH-PREFIX can be used within ~// to
40 print a symbol with a package prefix.
41 * enhancement: The debugger and backtracing are more robust against buggy
43 * optimization: calls to static functions on x86-64 use less instructions.
44 * optimization: compute encode-universal-time at compile time when possible.
45 * optimization: when referencing internal functions as #'x, don't go through
46 an indirect fdefn structure.
47 * optimization: SLEEP doesn't cons on non-immediate floats and on ratios.
48 * optimization: (mod fixnum) type-checks are performed using one unsigned
49 comparison, instead of two.
50 * optimization: enable more modular arithmetic transforms in the presence of
52 * optimization: bitwise OR forms can now trigger modular arithmetic as well,
53 when the result is known to be negative.
54 * optimization: recognize more cases of useless LOGAND/LOGIOR with constants.
55 * optimization: comparisons between rationals and constant floats or between
56 integers and constant ratios are now converted to rationals/integers at
58 * optimization: Smaller and faster DOUBLE-FLOAT-LOW-BITS on x86-64.
59 * bug fix: problems with NCONC type derivation (reported by Jerry James).
60 * bug fix: EXPT type derivation no longer constructs bogus floating-point
61 types. (reported by Vsevolod Dyomkin)
62 * bug fix: sb-bsd-sockets has correct declaration of the canonname field of
63 addrinfo. (lp#1187041, patch by Jerry James)
64 * bug fix: uninitialized type-error conditions can now be printed.
66 * bug fix: tests for sb-bsd-sockets no longer use a predefined port for
67 listening, allowing several tests to run in parallel.
68 * bug fix: during disassembly to *COMPILER-TRACE-OUTPUT* instruction
69 prefixes as used on x86 and x86-64 no longer sometimes print incorrectly.
71 * bug fix: Specialised SIMD-PACK types can be negated.
72 * bug fix: Modular arithmetic is more robust. (incidentally fixes another bug
73 reported by Eric Marsden)
74 * bug fix: FP return values from foreign calls are always rounded to single
75 or double float precision on x87.
76 * bug fix: Known-safe vector access on x86oids should not fail spuriously
77 when the index is of the form (+ x constant-positive-integer).
78 * bug fix: Remove GPL-licensed files from source distribution. (lp#1185668)
79 * bug fix: backtrace printer no longer tries to create very large lists when
80 the arg-count register is clobberred by other code. (lp#1192929)
81 * bug fix: x86 should never signal an FP exception while boxing an FP value,
82 a situation that lands us into ldb.
84 changes in sbcl-1.1.8 relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
85 * notice: The implementation of MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of
86 ROOM, plus a few SB-INTROSPECT functions) has been completely
87 rewritten; it may now exhibit different bugs than before.
88 * new feature: minimal runtime/compiler intrastructure support for SSE
89 SIMD values, as SB-EXT:SIMD-PACK. Enabled on x86-64 via the build-time
90 feature :sb-simd-pack. This should enable intrinsics extensions as
91 libraries, without patching SBCL itself. Thanks to Alexander Gavrilov
92 for maintaining a branch for so long.
93 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
94 the working directory of the spawned process.
95 (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
96 * enhancement: boxed vectors (vectors of T or of FIXNUM) can now be
97 stack-allocated on PPC.
98 * enhancement: "fixed objects" can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
99 * enhancement: WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS no longer conses on PPC/GENCGC.
100 * enhancement: (sb-introspect:find-definition-sources-by-name x :vop) now
101 also returns VOPs which do not translate any functions, and finds
102 defoptimizer types ir2convert and stack-allocate-result.
103 * enhancement: better type derivation for APPEND, NCONC, LIST.
105 * enhancement: MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of ROOM) now walks the
106 heap in a manner similar to the GC rather than its previous ad-hoc
107 scheme, and is therefore no less and possibly more accurate.
108 * fixes and enhancements related to Unicode:
109 ** the character database information has been updated to Unicode 6.2;
110 ** support for canonical and compatibility decomposition of characters has
111 been added, along with support for primary composition;
112 ** support for Unicode normalization forms of strings (NFC, NFKC, NFD and
113 NFKD) has been included;
114 ** querying the character database for code points not defined by Unicode
115 gives less wrong answers (lp#1178038, reported by Ken Harris)
116 * enhancement: print intermediate evaluation results for some ASSERTed
117 expressions. (lp#789497) (patch by Alexandra Barchunova)
118 * enhancement: x86-64 disassemblies are annotated with unboxed constant
119 values when there are references to (RIP-relative) unboxed constants.
120 * bug fix: type derivation for LOG{AND,IOR,XOR} scales linearly instead
121 of quadratically with the size of the input in the worst case.
123 * bug fix: handle errors when initializing *default-pathname-defaults*,
124 sb-ext:*runtime-pathname*, sb-ext:*posix-argv* on startup, like character
125 decoding errors, or directories being deleted.
126 * bug fix: Loading a core with a discontiguous dynamic space now correctly
127 computes the amount of dynamic space used.
128 * bug fix: disassembler missing ",8" on SHLD
129 * bug fix: backtracing through INTERNAL-ERROR signal handlers on systems
130 that provide an "invalid" stack frame link for the signal handler
131 itself now use the saved-fp-and-pc mechanism to pick up from the stack
132 frame in the interrupt (signal) context. This is known to affect
133 threaded FreeBSD/x86-64.
134 * bug fix: some LOOP statements couldn't be compiled.
136 * bug fix: sb-sequence:dosequence works on literal vectors.
137 * bug fix: errors in generic arithmetic show the assembly routine's
138 caller on x86 and x86-64. (lp#800343)
139 * bug fix: Compile-time type errors should never result in COMPILE-FILE
141 * bug fix: Known bad local calls do not cause strange failures when
142 emitting or dumping code. (lp#504121)
143 * bug fix: Multiply-inlined structure constructor don't cause IR2-time
144 codegen errors: type checks are inserted as necessary. (lp#1177703)
145 * bug fix: Unsigned modular arithmetic is correctly converted into signed
146 modular arithemtic (mostly to exploit fixnum-width VOPs). (lp#1026634)
147 * bug fix: a combination of inlined local function with &optional and
148 recursion no longer causes undescriptive compiler errors. (lp#1180992)
149 * bug fix: sub-word BOOLEAN alien types now disregard higher order bits
150 when testing for non-zero-ness.
151 * bug fix: (CONCATENATE 'null ...) no longer fails for generic sequences.
153 * bug fix: Type mismatch for the value of conditional expressions are
154 correctly reported when detected at compile-time, instead of complaining
155 about a constant NIL (similar for non-EQ-comparable catch tags).
156 * bug fix: Referring to INLINE global functions as values should not result
157 in a compilation failure. (lp#1035721)
158 * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
159 * optimization: faster and smaller INTEGER-LENGTH on fixnums on x86-64.
160 * optimization: On x86-64, the number of multi-byte NOP instructions used
161 for code alignment is now always minimal.
162 * optimization: On 64-bit targets, the compiler generates much faster
163 code for type checks for types known at compile time that are smaller
164 than (SIGNED-BYTE 64) or (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) and larger than FIXNUM, and
165 their COMPLEX variants.
166 * optimization: On x86 targets, more uses of ALIEN-FUNCALL during cross
167 compilation now inline the INVOKE-WITH-SAVED-FP-AND-PC dance.
168 * optimization: ROOM no longer conses so egregiously on non-x86oid
170 * optimization: associative bitwise operations reassociate patterns like
171 (f (f x k1) k2) to expose (f x (f k1 k2)). Same for + and * of
173 * optimization: quasiquote expressions now perform more constant folding,
174 instead of consing equal lists at runtime. (lp#1026439)
175 * optimization: local call analysis of inlined higher-order function
176 should converge more quickly, resulting in better code for complex
178 * optimization: On x86-64, medium (word-sized but wider than 32 bits)
179 integer constants are handled more cleverly, especially when they
180 can be represented as sign-extended (signed-byte 32). (Based on a
181 patch by Douglas Katzman)
182 * optimization: IF/IF conversion should reliably result in sane code
183 when (some of) the results of the inner IF are always false or
185 * optimization: On x86oids, variable right shifts of machine words are
186 compiled into straight SAR/SHR, instead of going through the generic
189 changes in sbcl-1.1.7 relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
190 * enhancement: TRACE :PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued forms.
192 * bug fix: :allocation slot option works for condition slots
194 * bug fix: redefining conditions does not lead to multiple evaluations of
195 hairy slot initfunctions anymore (lp#1164969)
196 * bug fix: CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS now works for condition classes
198 * bug fix: function constants now work as initforms and default initarg
199 values of conditions (lp#539517)
200 * bug fix: svref/(setf svref) on symbol macros don't crash the compiler
201 anymore. (Minimal test case provided by James M. Lawrence on sbcl-devel)
202 * bug fix: no more bogus ## references when pretty printing backquoted
203 forms with non-trivial structure sharing. (lp#1161218)
204 * bug fix: Don't signal an error on (setf (documentation nil 'function)
205 "doc"). Signal a style-warning instead when trying to set documentation
206 of NIL for all other documentation types. (Reported by Zach
207 Beane; regression since 2e52fa05.)
208 * bug fix: modular arithmetic involving large constants and conditionals
209 should no longer result in spurious dead code elimination. (Reported by
211 * bug fix: our mach exception handler can seemingly called very early in
212 the program execution process on OS X 10.8.0. Try and handle that case
213 robustly, without potentially leaking mach ports too much.
214 * optimization: LOGBITP and LOGTEST optimizations from x86 ported to x86_64.
216 changes in sbcl-1.1.6 relative to sbcl-1.1.5:
217 * enhancement: the continuable error when defknown-ing over extant
218 fndb entries can be ignored by passing :overwrite-fndb-silently t
219 as a keyword argument to sb-c:defknown (after attributes). Useful
220 to allow defknown to be re-loaded. Use with :allow-other-keys t
221 for backward compatibility.
222 * optimization: compiler is much faster in compiling SVREF and (SETF SVREF)
224 * bug fix: Prevent a make-array transform from modifying source forms
225 causing problems for inlined code. Thanks to Bart Botta.
226 (regression since 1.0.42.11-bis)
227 * bug fix: clear-output calls the correct gray stream routine,
228 sb-gray:stream-clear-output. (lp#1153257)
229 * bug fix: an error is signalled for an invalid format modifier: ~<~@>.
231 * bug fix: Better error messages for package operations (lp#1154776)
232 * bug fix: delete-package on a nonexistent package should signal a cerror.
233 (regression since 1.0.37.44).
234 * bug fix: accessing &MORE (stack allocated &REST) arguments checks bounds.
235 (lp#1154946, lp#1072112)
236 * bug fix: compiling make-array no longer signals an error when the
237 element-type is an uknown type, a warning is issued instead.
238 Thanks to James Kalenius (lp#1156095)
239 * bug fix: SEARCH on generic (non-VECTOR non-LIST) sequence types no longer
240 produces wrong results for some inputs. (Thanks to Jan Moringen.)
243 changes in sbcl-1.1.5 relative to sbcl-1.1.4:
244 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING no longer loops
246 * new feature: package local nicknames. See manual for details.
247 * new feature: SB-EXT:MAP-DIRECTORY provides a powerful interface for
248 directory traversal: it is the backend used by SBCL for CL:DIRECTORY.
249 * enhancement: easier to use restarts for resolving name-conflicts
250 resulting from IMPORT, EXPORT, or USE-PACKAGE.
251 * enhancement: variant DEFPACKAGE forms now signal a full error with
252 restarts provided for resolving the situation. (lp#891351)
253 * enhancement: by setting SB-EXT:*ON-PACKAGE-VARIANCE* appropriately variant
254 DEFPACKAGE forms can now signal a full error with restarts provided for
255 resolving the situation. See manual for details. (lp#891351)
256 * enhancement: make-random-state now uses CryptGenRandom as a seed on Windows.
257 (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) (lp#1102748)
258 * enhancement: backtrace improvements
259 ** secondary CLOS dispatch functions have better debug names (lp#503081)
260 ** easier to read method names in backtraces. See
261 SB-DEBUG:*METHOD-FRAME-STYLE*.
262 ** SB-DEBUG:PRINT-BACKTRACE and SB-DEBUG:LIST-BACKTRACE are available as
263 forwards-compatible replacements for SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE and
264 SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST.
265 ** SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS** has been deprecated, as the same
266 information is available in less intrusive form as frame annotations.
267 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides MAP-ANON.
268 * enhancement: test-suite results are colorized, failures in red, unexpected
269 success in green. Works on Windows and on terminals with ANSI escape code
270 support. Can be disabled with --no-color.
271 * optimization: SB-CONCURRENCY:QUEUE implementation is more efficient.
272 (thanks to James M. Lawrence)
273 * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings from RESTART-CASE
274 macroexpansion (lp#1113859)
275 * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings when loading
276 sb-bsd-sockets.asd (lp#1114681)
277 * bug fix: deleting a package removes it from implementation-package
278 lists of other packages.
279 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING is now usable in the Slime REPL on Darwin.
280 This does not fix the occasional "interrupt already pending" issue, though.
281 * bug fix: (setf (documentation 'x 'function)) and
282 (setf (documentation #'x t)) set documentation in different places.
283 (regression since 1.0.43.63)
284 * bug fix: build on newer glibc. (lp#1095036)
286 changes in sbcl-1.1.4 relative to sbcl-1.1.3:
287 * optimization: LOOP expressions using "of-type character" have slightly
288 more efficient expansions.
289 * bug fix: very long (or infinite) constant lists in DOLIST do not result
290 in very long compile times or heap exhaustion anymore. (lp#1095488)
291 * bug fix: `#3(1) is read as #(1 1 1), not as #(1). (lp#1095918)
292 * bug fix: adjust-array ignored :initial-element for simple-vectors.
294 * bug fix: optimizations to MAKE-INSTANCE with literal list initargs no
295 longer cause infinite loops (on circular data) or violate eqlity
296 constraints. (lp#1099708)
297 * bug fix: FIRST was not being open coded. (regression from 1.1.0)
299 changes in sbcl-1.1.3 relative to sbcl-1.1.2:
300 * enhancement: warnings about bad locale settings, LANG, LC_CTYPE, etc.
302 * enhancement: support for C-c to interrupt the foreground thread
303 on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
304 * enhancement: STDCALL alien callbacks. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
305 * enhancement: Safepoint builds on POSIX platforms can now optionally be
306 built without pseudo-atomic sequences and their run-time overhead.
307 * enhancement: Threads created outside of Lisp can enter Lisp through
308 alien callbacks and appear as Lisp threads for the duration of that
309 function invocation. On safepoint builds only.
310 * enhancement: Miscellaneous improvements to namestrings and underlying
311 calls to OS functions for file system access on Windows. (Thanks to
313 * enhancement: The MSI installer support for Windows now uses Windows
314 Installer XML at least version 3.5 and includes various usability
315 improvements. (Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.)
316 * enhancement: The sb-bsd-sockets contrib now supports non-blocking-mode
317 on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
318 * enhancement: The Windows backend now supports the x86-64 platform.
319 (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
320 * bug fix: fasls are now once again directly executable (on platforms
321 supporting shebang lines, with a suitably-installed sbcl).
322 * bug fix: make.sh --help no longer runs clean.sh. (lp#937001)
323 * bug fix: Fix CAS access to slots of direct instances of structure classes
324 in the presence of subclasses sharing the same conc-name.
325 * bug fix: Logical pathname namestrings on Windows have been changed to
326 be lower-case, to minimize differences between POSIX and Windows.
328 changes in sbcl-1.1.2 relative to sbcl-1.1.1:
329 * notice: System requirements for SBCL on Microsoft Windows: Windows NT 5.1
330 or newer (Windows XP, Server 2003) is required. Support for Windows 2000
331 (NT 5.0) is no longer being maintained.
332 * notice: Starting with this version, SBCL on Windows no longer supports
333 building with disabled thread support.
334 * enhancement: frlocks have been added to SB-CONCURRENCY contrib module.
335 * enhancement: New feature sb-dynamic-core allows the runtime to be
336 rebuilt or relocated without requiring changes to the core file on
337 all linkage table platforms. Required on Windows. (Thanks to Anton
339 * enhancement: Console I/O streams use UCS-2. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
340 * enhancement: I/O on Windows unnamed pipes is interruptible
341 asynchronously using interrupt-thread, timers when running on Windows NT
342 version 6.1 or newer (Windows 7, Server 2008 R2). (Thanks to Anton
344 * enhancement: Support for the experimental safepoint-based stop-the-world
345 protocol on the PowerPC platform.
346 * bug fix: Non-blocking reads from the Windows console were not necessarily
347 non-blocking. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko. (lp#308923)
348 * bug fix: stability of threads on Windows has been improved upon through
349 an updated stop-the-world protocol (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
351 changes in sbcl-1.1.1 relative to sbcl-1.1.0:
352 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT no longer grabs the world-lock.
353 (COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE still do.)
354 * optimization: the SPARC backend now supports the precise generational
355 (GENCGC) garbage collection. Enabled by default on Solaris/SPARC and
356 Linux/SPARC. Thanks to Raymond Toy (via CMUCL).
357 * enhancement: add experimental support for the SB-THREAD feature and the
358 timer facility on Windows. Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.
359 Threads are enabled by default, and this version of SBCL is considered
360 to be the last and final release to officially support building with
362 * optimization: The compiler no longer rotates loops in some cases where
363 this transformation actually lead to worse code being generated.
364 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:MACROEXPAND-ALL correctly handles shadowing of
365 symbol-macros by lexical bindings.
366 * bug fix: stack allocation was prevented by high DEBUG declaration in
368 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GC-LOGFILE signaled an error when no logfile was set.
369 (thanks to SANO Masatoshi)
370 * bug fix: PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING performed non-native parsing when
371 :JUNK-ALLOWED was true.
372 * bug fix: type derivation inferred overly conservative types for
373 unions of array types. (lp#1050768)
375 changes in sbcl-1.1.0 relative to sbcl-1.0.58:
376 * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling
377 source annotation of DISASSEMBLE output. Defaults to T.
378 * enhancement: TIMEOUT arguments added to WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK, and
379 WAIT-P argument added to WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK.
380 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-PUSH and SB-EXT:ATOMIC-POP allow atomic operations
382 * enhancement: Optional features (not enabled by default) allow the
383 use of signals for inter-thread synchronization to be reduced on certain
384 supported platforms (currently Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD on x86 and
385 x86-64). Set (and :sb-thread :sb-safepoint :sb-thruption :sb-wtimer)
386 to test these experimental features. Known remaining bugs include minor
387 thread safety issues, less timely freeing of memory by GC, and certain
388 (not yet optimally low) runtime overhead. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.
389 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT of lists are faster and use fewer
390 comparisons, particularly on almost-sorted inputs.
391 * bug fix: Reading floats with large exponents no longer takes too much time
392 before reporting that the exponent is too large.
393 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-RECEIVE with a UDP socket now works
394 correctly when the received datagram is larger than the provided buffer.
395 (lp#1023438, thanks to Robert Uhl)
396 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION returned a bogus read-form when given
397 a SYMBOL-VALUE form with a constant symbol argument.
398 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION signaled an error when a macro expanding
399 into a DEFCAS defined place was used as the place.
400 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION signaled a type-error when non-bits where looked
401 for from bit-vectors.
402 * bug fix: a race condition around thread creation could (in SBCL 1.0.57)
403 lead to internal errors or crashes (lp#1058799).
404 * documentation: a section on random number generation has been added to the
407 changes in sbcl-1.0.58 relative to sbcl-1.0.57:
408 * enhancement: implicit generic function warnings now specify the package
409 in which the new generic function is being created.
410 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-UPDATE makes it easy to perform non-destructive
411 updates of CAS-able places (similar to Clojure's swap!).
412 * enhancement: run-program no longer decodes and re-encodes environment when
413 :environment argument is not provided. (lp#985904)
414 * enhancement: errors during compiler-macro expansion no longer cause
415 runtime errors, only a compile-time warning, otherwise behaving as if
416 the compiler macro had declined to expand.
417 * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with
418 multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP.
419 * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is
420 of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (lp#1001043,
421 thanks to James M. Lawrence)
422 * optimization: the compiler no longer heap-conses to check exits in cases
423 where the exit function is dynamic extent, or when it can prove the exit
424 function cannot escape. (lp#1002534)
425 * optimization: SB-SEQUENCE:DOSEQUENCE is faster on vectors of unknown
426 element type, and vectors that aren't SIMPLE-ARRAYs.
427 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT are more efficient in execution
428 speed (around 1/3 the time in some cases), and a little better in terms of
429 comparison calls. (Thanks to Takeru Ohta)
430 * bug fix: On SPARC, a limitation on the number of code constants emittable
431 by the compiler has been lifted, allowing certain long functions to
432 compiled and assembled which had previously been unsupported; fixes
433 cl-bench on this ISA (lp#1008996).
434 * bug fix: potential for infinite recursion during compilation of CLOS slot
435 typechecks when dependency graph had loops. (lp#1001799)
436 * bug fix: error forms reported with some program-errors were not escaped
438 * bug fix: functions from EVAL are now on more equal footing with functions
439 from COMPILE. (lp#1000783, lp#851170, lp#922408)
440 * bug fix: ENSURE-GENERIC-METHOD-COMBINATION accepts method combination
441 objects as its :METHOD-COMBINATION argument, not just lists designating
442 method combinations. (lp#936513)
443 * bug fix: run-program no longer unconditionally uses /tmp/ for temporary
445 * bug fix: restore build on solaris/sparc. (lp#1008506)
446 * bug fix: an issue with LDB in the PowerPC backend has been resolved;
447 this fixes an issue found with cl-postgres (thanks to Tomas Hlavaty).
448 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-lists specifying non-keyword symbols
449 as keyword arguments no longer accidentally match unevaluated symbols
451 * bug fix: FORMAT used to loop infinitely in some cases when a COLINC
452 parameter was zero, now it signals an error. (lp#905817, fixed since
454 * bug fix: run-program with :pty t no longer makes the pty as the process's
456 * bug fix: spawning threads on OS X 10.8 no longer crashes the process
459 changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
460 * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes:
461 ** bug fix: the range and distribution of random integers could be
462 catastrophically wrong when the compiler derived the type of its
463 argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
464 ** bug fix: the distribution of random integers is now completely
465 uniform even when the specified limit is not a power of two.
466 (Previously some values could be about 0.1 % more probable than
467 others in the worst case.) (lp#309467)
468 ** RANDOM on large integer arguments is generally faster and conses
469 less than before; this is visible for fixnums above a length of
470 about 24 bits, but extremely so for bignums: the old implementation
471 used time and space quadratical in the size of the argument there,
472 the new one is linear.
473 * enhancement: redesigned protocol for quitting SBCL. SB-EXT:EXIT is the new
474 main entry point, SB-EXT:QUIT is deprecated.
475 * enhancement: additions to the SB-THREAD API: RETURN-FROM-THREAD,
476 ABORT-THREAD, MAIN-THREAD-P, and MAIN-THREAD.
477 * enhancement: FASL loading no longer grabs the world-lock.
478 * enhancement: GENCGC reclaims space more aggressively when objects being
479 allocated are a large fraction of the total available heap space.
481 * enhancement: backtraces show the correct number of arguments for frames
482 called with too many arguments.
483 * enhancement: support for abort(3), exit(3), and _exit(2) has been added to
485 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.21.
486 * optimization: fewer uses of full calls to signed modular functions.
488 * optimization: typechecking alien values is typically 5 x faster.
489 * optimization: FDEFINITION, SYMBOL-FUNCTION, MACRO-FUNCTION, and FBOUNDP
491 * bug fix: file compilation performance issues when dumping subtypes
492 of CHARACTER (lp#994487)
493 * bug fix: fixed disassembly of some SSE instructions on x86-64.
494 * bug fix: SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS signals an error for bogus :CLASS arguments in
495 OPEN. (lp#969352, thanks to Kambiz Darabi)
496 * bug fix: CASE normal-clauses do not allow T and OTHERWISE as keys.
498 * bug fix: (SETF (FIND-CLASS X) NIL) removed proper name of the underlying
499 classoid even if X was not the proper name of the class. (lp#941102)
500 * bug fix: declaration leakage between lexical environments due to careless
501 use of NCONC in MAKE-LEXENV. (lp#924276)
502 * bug fix: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST now works when
503 *default-pathname-defaults* contains NAME or TYPE components.
504 * bug fix: PPRINT couldn't print improper lists with CARs being some symbols
505 from CL package, e.g. (loop . 10).
506 * bug fix: run-program with existent or non-existent files for :output or
507 :input when :if-output-exists or :if-input-does-not-exist are NIL properly
508 returns NIL instead of signalling an obscure error.
509 * bug fix: fix miscompilation of some logand forms with large constant
510 arguments. (lp#974406)
511 * bug fix: account for funcallable-instance objects properly in ROOM.
512 * bug fix: incorrect octets reported for c-string decoding errors.
514 * bug fix: miscompilation of LDB on the PowerPC platform. (thanks to Bruce
516 * bug fix: better input error reporting for COMPILE-FILE. (lp#493380)
517 * bug fix: default size of non-nursery generations has been shrunk on GENCGC,
518 allowing faster release of memory back to the OS. (lp#991293)
519 * bug fix: WITH-DEADLINE (:SECONDS NIL :OVERRIDE T) now drops any
520 existing deadline for the dynamic scope of its body.
521 * bug fix: compiler-internal interval arithmetic needed to be more
522 conservative about open intervals when operated on by monotonic but not
523 strictly-monotonic functions. (lp#975528)
524 * bug fix: copy-tree caused stack exhaustion on long linear lists, and now
525 it's also slightly faster. (lp#998926)
526 * bug fix: better error messages for malformed declarations.
528 * bug fix: define-condition didn't return the name of the defined condition.
530 ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)
532 changes in sbcl-1.0.56 relative to sbcl-1.0.55:
533 * bug fix: fix copy-structure. When copying from stack to heap, garbage
534 could end up in the heap making GC unhappy.
535 (Thanks to James Knight, lp#911027)
537 ** SBCL can now be built using Clang.
538 ** ASDF has been updated 2.20.
539 * bug fix: compiler errors when weakening hairy integer types. (lp#913232)
540 * bug fix: don't complain about a too-hairy lexical environment for inlining
541 when the function has never been requested for inlining. (lp#963530)
543 changes in sbcl-1.0.55 relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
544 * enhancements to building SBCL using make.sh:
545 ** --fancy can be specified to enable all supported feature enhancements.
546 ** --with-<feature> and --without-<feature> can be used to specify
547 which features to build with.
548 ** --arch option can be used to specify the architecture to build for.
549 (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not
550 full-blows cross-compilation.)
551 * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax <pkgname>::<form-in-package>
552 which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the
554 * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than
555 T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown)
556 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a
557 null alien when malloc() fails. (lp#891268)
558 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-UNREADABLY restart for PRINT-NOT-READABLE
559 conditions can be conveniently accessed through function with the same
560 name, analogously to CONTINUE.
561 * enhancement: SB-EXT:*SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* can be used to suppress errors
562 from the printer by type, causing an error marker to be printed instead.
563 (Thanks to Attila Lendvai)
564 * enhancement: BACKTRACE and DESCRIBE now bind *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T, and
565 generally behave better when errors occur during printing.
566 * enhancement: the test runner now takes a --report-skipped-tests argument
567 to report the individual tests skipped as well as the number of skipped
569 * enhancement: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
570 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on x86oids.
571 * enhancement: detected deadlocks no longer cause stderr to be spammed, and
572 deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
573 * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
575 * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
576 :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
577 of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to LuÃs Oliveira, lp#901661)
578 * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other
579 instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64.
580 * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude
581 faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial.)
582 * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
584 * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
585 be stack-allocated. (lp#902351)
586 * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
587 floating point constants used in full calls.
588 * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
589 single floats inline, except on x86 where this limitation is still
591 * optimization: truncation operations on integers with constant divisor
592 arguments 1 and -1 are optimized away.
593 * bug fix: deadlock detection could report the same deadlock twice, for
594 two different threads. Now a single deadlock is reported exactly once.
595 * bug fix: interval-arithmetic division during type derivation did not
596 account for signed zeros.
597 * bug fix: compiler error when typechecking a call to a function with
598 non-constant keyword arguments.
599 * bug fix: misoptimization of TRUNCATE causing erratic behaviour.
600 * bug fix: condition slot accessors no longer cause undefined function
601 style-warnings when used in the :REPORT clause of the DEFINE-CONDITION
602 form that defines them. (lp#896379)
603 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC warns about unsupported declarations, as specified
605 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP tests involving forward-referenced classes no longer
606 bogusly report NIL, T.
607 * bug fix: bogus style-warnings for DEFMETHOD forms that both declared some
608 required arguments ignored and performed assignments to others.
610 * bug fix: *EVALUATOR-MODE* :COMPILE treated (LET () ...) identically
611 to (LOCALLY ...) leading to internally inconsistent toplevel-formness.
612 * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type.
613 * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an
614 unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243)
615 * bug fix: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
616 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on non-x86oids.
617 * bug fix: backtraces are no longer cut off at ("undefined function") when
618 called under certain circumstances (involving a caller-allocated stack
620 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM leaked a file-descriptor per call on non-Windows
621 systems. (regression since 1.0.53)
622 * bug fix: GC deadlocks from dladdr() on certain platforms.
623 * bug fix: broken standard streams no longer automatically cause recursive
624 errors on debugger entry.
625 * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
626 (regression since 1.0.53)
627 * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
628 an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
629 * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
630 no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
631 * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
632 subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
633 * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
634 forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
635 * bug fix: some of the compile-time side-effects of DEFCLASS were not caught
637 * bug fix: Proper handling of --dynamic-space-size option on 32 bit platforms.
639 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
640 * minor incompatible changes:
641 ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file
643 ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the
644 directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve the
645 pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE if
646 you wish to delete the
647 ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using
648 symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning.
649 * thread-related enhancements:
650 (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign.
651 Many thanks to generous donors!)
652 ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still don't
653 consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to enable them by
654 default, but they're in a clearly better shape now.
655 ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms.
656 ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT
658 ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD.
659 ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects.
660 ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE,
661 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
662 ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
663 using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
664 * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes:
665 ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb,
666 and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before.
667 ** on GENCGC targets, the default dynamic space size is now 512Mb for
668 32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only
669 exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The
670 new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems.
671 Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with
672 another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a
673 good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system
675 ** on GENCGC targets, nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of
677 ** on GENCGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ no longer categorically
678 refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
679 ** on 64-bit GENCGC targets, setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works.
681 ** on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does the same
682 validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
683 comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.
684 * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes:
685 ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
686 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
687 systems with getaddrinfo().
688 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
689 safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
690 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.019.
691 * enhancement: special-case TCO prevention for functions which never return
692 extended to untrusted types, keeping one more frame's worth of debug
693 information around in many cases.
694 * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more
695 descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100)
696 * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against
697 overflows. (lp#888410)
698 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child
699 process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987)
700 * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing
701 the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are
702 located. (Thanks to Zach Beane)
703 * enhancement: the compiler is now able to derive tighter bounds for
704 floating point numbers in some cases. (Thanks to Lutz Euler, lp#894498)
705 * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
706 correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
707 * bug fix: (DIRECTORY "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that
708 resolved to directories.
709 * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer
710 result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750)
711 * bug fix: type mismatch on (SETF AREF) and function return values no
712 longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects.
713 * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
714 <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
715 instead of partially calculating only to single-precision. (lp#741564;
716 thanks to Lutz Euler)
717 * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus
718 objects when interrupted by GC on PPC.
720 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
721 * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,
722 the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum =
723 (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.
724 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events.
725 * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit
726 targets is now 63 bits (up from 61).
727 * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location
728 for complext setf-expanders.
729 * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO,
730 GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values
731 of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an
732 error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3).
733 * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64.
734 * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation
735 when built with certain compilers.
736 * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant
737 rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151)
738 * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus
739 code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on
741 * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying
742 to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with
744 * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage
745 on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445)
746 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to
747 delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877)
748 * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length
749 sequences and :KEY NIL.
751 changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51:
752 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017.
753 * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with
755 * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular
756 or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION
757 argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level.
758 * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime
759 hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL
760 processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only
761 enable this for compressed cores.
762 * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses.
763 * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings
764 or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table.
765 * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error.
767 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with
768 AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971)
769 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of
770 multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970)
771 * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list
772 expressions. (lp#770184)
773 * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used
774 as arguments of arithmetic operators.
775 * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a
776 fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller)
777 * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds
778 from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max
780 * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are
781 added or removed works again.
783 changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50:
784 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer
785 participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to
786 MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT.
787 * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals
788 and probe counts on Linux.
789 * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a
790 chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.)
791 * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive
793 * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine
794 (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
795 * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on
796 x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov).
797 * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed
798 to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently
799 implemented for x86 and x86-64.
800 * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented
801 using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.)
802 * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE.
803 * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle
804 instructions. (lp#814688)
805 * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works.
806 (reported by Jan Moringen; lp#815155)
807 * bug fix: a compiler error during typecheck generation, reported by Eric
809 * bug fix: obsolete instance protocol fires when shared slots are added
811 * bug fix: fixed-format floating point printing with scaling factors.
813 * bug fix: using GCC >= 4.6 to build SBCL on x86 no longer breaks
814 backtraces. (lp#818460)
815 * bug fix: better backtraces for interrupted syscall frames on x86.
817 * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one
818 operand is in memory. (lp#814702)
819 * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599)
820 * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived
821 type information associated with the VALUES form.
822 * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE
824 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before
825 first write (lp#561642).
826 * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974)
827 * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to
828 floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler.
830 * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known
831 functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459).
832 * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression
835 changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
836 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
837 the offending handler.
838 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure
840 * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily
841 be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*
842 and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*.
843 * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for
844 the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments.
845 * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when
846 COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED.
847 * enhancement: SB-ALIEN exports alien type specifiers SIZE-T and OFF-T.
848 * enhancement: debugger understands &MORE arguments better.
849 * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been
850 optimized. (lp#555201)
851 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors,
852 when (> SPEED SPACE).
853 * optimization: local call trampolines (x86 and x86-64) are emitted
855 * optimization: implicit value cells for dynamic-extent closed-over bindings
856 on x86 and x86-64 can hold unboxed values as well.
857 * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large
858 functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206)
859 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
860 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
861 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
862 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
863 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
864 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
865 * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT
866 boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots.
867 * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist.
868 (lp#795705, regression)
869 * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames.
870 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings
871 are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237)
872 * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in
873 MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812)
874 * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg.
875 (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously.
877 * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic
878 functions with both optional and key argments.
879 * bug fix: regalloc doesn't barf on unused TNs due to type-directed constant
881 * bug fix: Fixed an off-by-one in MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS that might have caused
884 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
885 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
886 interrupts for its body.
887 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
888 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
889 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
890 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
891 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
892 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
893 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
895 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
897 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
898 type-errors detected at compile-time.
899 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
900 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
901 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
902 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
903 easier to use safely.
904 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
905 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
906 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
907 * enhancement: --script improvements:
908 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
909 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
911 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
912 terminal even if one is available.
913 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
915 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
916 strings to foreign memory.
917 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
918 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
919 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
920 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
921 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
923 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
924 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
926 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
927 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
928 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
929 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
930 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
931 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
932 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
933 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
934 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
936 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
938 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
940 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
941 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
942 years, is now no longer supported.
943 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
944 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
945 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
946 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
947 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
948 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
949 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
950 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
951 functions. (lp#740717)
952 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
953 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
954 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
955 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
956 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
958 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
959 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
960 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
961 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
962 of DEFUN. (lp#675584)
963 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
965 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
967 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
968 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
969 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
971 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
974 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
975 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
976 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
978 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
979 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
980 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
981 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
982 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
983 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
984 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
985 declarations. (lp#726331)
986 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
987 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
988 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
990 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
992 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
993 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
994 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
995 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
996 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
997 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
998 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
999 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
1000 are detected. (lp#520607)
1001 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
1003 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
1004 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
1005 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
1006 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
1007 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
1008 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
1009 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
1011 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
1012 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
1013 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
1014 variable. (lp#551227)
1015 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
1017 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
1018 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
1019 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
1020 arguments (lp#710017)
1021 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
1022 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
1024 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
1025 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
1026 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
1027 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
1028 up instance creation in those cases.
1029 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
1030 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
1031 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
1032 pretty-printing was overly slow.
1033 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
1034 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
1035 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
1036 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
1037 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
1039 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
1040 mistake. (lp#667297).
1041 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
1042 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
1043 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
1044 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
1045 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
1046 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
1049 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
1050 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
1051 Refer to documentation for details.
1052 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
1053 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
1054 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
1055 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
1056 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
1057 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
1059 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
1060 argument list. (lp#310173)
1061 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
1062 derived properly (lp#384892)
1063 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
1064 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
1065 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
1066 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
1067 in the DEFMETHOD body.
1068 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
1069 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
1070 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
1071 operators. (lp#309448)
1073 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
1074 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
1075 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
1076 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
1078 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
1079 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
1080 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
1081 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
1082 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
1084 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
1085 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
1086 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
1087 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
1088 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
1089 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
1090 addition member types.
1091 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
1092 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
1093 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
1094 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
1095 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
1097 * improvements to the Windows port:
1098 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
1099 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
1100 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
1101 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
1102 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
1104 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
1105 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
1106 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
1107 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
1109 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
1110 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
1111 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
1112 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
1113 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
1114 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
1115 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
1116 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
1117 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
1118 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
1119 so badly. (lp#654485)
1120 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
1121 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
1122 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
1123 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1124 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
1125 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
1126 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
1127 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
1128 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
1129 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
1130 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
1131 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
1132 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
1133 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
1134 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
1135 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
1136 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1137 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
1139 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
1140 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
1141 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
1142 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
1143 contribs (lp#659105)
1144 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
1145 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1146 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
1147 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
1148 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
1149 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
1150 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
1151 properly. (lp#384801)
1152 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
1153 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
1155 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
1156 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
1157 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
1158 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
1159 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
1161 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
1162 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1163 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
1164 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1166 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
1167 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
1168 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
1169 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
1170 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
1171 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
1172 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
1173 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
1175 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
1177 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
1178 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
1179 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
1181 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
1182 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
1183 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1184 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
1185 thanks to Andrew Golding)
1186 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
1187 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
1189 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
1190 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
1191 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1192 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
1193 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1194 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
1195 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1196 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
1197 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
1198 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
1199 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1200 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
1201 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
1202 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
1204 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
1205 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
1206 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
1207 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1208 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
1209 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1210 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
1211 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
1212 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
1213 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
1214 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
1215 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
1216 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
1217 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
1218 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
1219 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
1220 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
1221 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
1222 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
1224 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
1226 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
1227 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
1229 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
1231 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
1232 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
1233 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
1234 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
1235 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
1236 * optimization: The default implementation of
1237 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
1238 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
1239 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
1240 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
1241 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
1242 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
1243 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1244 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
1245 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1246 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
1247 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
1249 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
1250 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
1251 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
1252 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
1253 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
1254 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
1256 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
1258 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
1259 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
1260 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
1261 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
1262 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
1263 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
1265 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
1267 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
1268 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
1270 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
1271 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
1273 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
1274 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
1275 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
1276 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
1277 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
1278 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
1279 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
1280 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
1281 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
1282 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
1283 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1284 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
1286 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
1288 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
1289 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
1290 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
1291 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
1292 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
1293 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
1294 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
1295 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
1296 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
1297 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
1299 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
1300 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
1301 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
1303 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
1304 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
1305 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
1307 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
1308 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
1309 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
1311 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
1312 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
1313 generic function call.
1314 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
1315 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
1316 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
1318 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
1320 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
1321 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
1322 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
1323 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
1324 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
1325 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
1326 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
1327 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
1328 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
1329 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
1330 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
1331 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
1332 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
1333 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
1334 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
1336 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
1337 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
1338 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
1339 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
1340 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
1341 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
1342 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
1343 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
1344 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
1345 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
1346 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
1347 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
1348 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
1349 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
1350 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
1351 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
1352 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
1353 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
1354 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
1355 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
1356 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
1357 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
1358 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
1359 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
1360 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
1362 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
1363 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
1364 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
1366 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
1367 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
1369 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
1370 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
1371 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
1372 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
1374 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
1375 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
1376 stack frame thrown from.
1377 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
1378 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
1379 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
1380 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
1382 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
1383 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
1384 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
1385 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
1386 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
1387 for accessing such arrays.
1388 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
1389 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
1390 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
1391 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1392 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
1393 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
1394 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
1395 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
1396 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
1397 functions. (lp#524707)
1398 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1399 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
1400 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
1401 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
1402 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
1403 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
1404 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
1405 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
1406 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
1407 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
1408 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
1409 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
1410 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
1411 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
1413 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
1414 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
1415 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
1416 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
1417 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
1419 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1420 declarations (lp#497321)
1421 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
1422 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
1423 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
1425 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
1426 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
1427 due to it, so that handlers can run.
1428 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
1429 parsing. (lp#309128)
1430 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
1431 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
1432 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
1433 expanded calls (lp#542174)
1434 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
1435 than just at toplevel form.
1437 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
1438 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
1439 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
1440 but work on type specifiers.
1441 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
1442 to name a type specifier.
1443 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
1444 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
1445 second argument of TYPEP".
1446 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
1447 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
1448 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
1449 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
1450 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
1451 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
1452 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
1453 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
1454 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
1455 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
1456 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
1457 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
1458 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
1460 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
1462 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
1463 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
1465 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
1466 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
1467 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
1468 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
1469 before reaching the erring stack frame.
1470 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
1471 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
1472 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
1473 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
1474 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
1475 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
1476 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
1477 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
1479 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
1480 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
1481 is properly inlined when possible.
1482 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
1483 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
1484 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
1485 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
1486 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
1487 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
1488 launchpad bug lp#508485)
1489 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
1490 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
1491 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
1492 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
1493 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
1494 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
1496 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
1497 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
1499 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
1501 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
1502 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
1503 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
1504 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
1505 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
1506 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1507 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
1509 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
1510 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
1511 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
1512 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
1513 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
1514 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
1515 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
1516 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
1517 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
1518 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
1519 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
1520 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
1521 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
1522 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
1524 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
1527 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
1528 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1529 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
1530 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
1531 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
1532 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
1533 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
1534 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
1536 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
1537 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
1538 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
1539 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
1541 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
1542 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
1543 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1544 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1545 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1546 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1548 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
1549 errors for fd-stream external formats.
1550 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
1551 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
1552 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
1553 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
1554 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
1556 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
1557 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
1558 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
1559 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
1561 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
1562 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
1563 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
1564 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
1565 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
1567 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
1568 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
1569 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
1570 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
1571 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
1572 error is near the end of file.
1573 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
1574 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
1575 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
1576 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
1577 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
1578 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
1579 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
1580 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
1581 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
1582 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1583 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
1584 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
1585 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
1586 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
1587 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
1588 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
1589 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
1590 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
1591 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
1592 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
1593 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
1594 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
1595 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
1596 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
1598 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
1599 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
1600 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
1601 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
1602 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
1603 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
1604 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
1605 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
1606 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
1608 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
1609 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
1610 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
1611 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
1613 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
1614 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
1615 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
1617 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
1619 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
1620 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
1622 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
1623 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
1624 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
1625 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
1626 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
1627 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
1628 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
1629 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
1630 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
1631 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
1632 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1633 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
1634 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
1636 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
1637 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
1638 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
1639 open coded is now considered a bug.
1640 * improvements related to Unicode:
1641 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1642 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1643 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1645 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
1646 syllable characters.
1647 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
1648 (as well as for stream operations).
1649 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
1650 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
1652 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
1653 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
1655 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
1657 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
1658 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
1659 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
1660 constant two has been optimized.
1661 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
1662 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1663 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
1664 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
1665 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
1666 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
1667 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
1668 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
1669 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
1670 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
1671 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
1672 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
1673 but assumed or declared function as well.
1674 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
1675 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1676 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
1677 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
1679 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
1680 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
1681 well as user defined declaration names.
1682 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
1683 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
1685 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
1686 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1687 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
1688 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
1689 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
1691 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
1693 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
1695 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
1696 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1697 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
1698 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1699 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
1700 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
1701 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
1702 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
1703 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
1705 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
1706 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1707 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
1708 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
1709 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
1710 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
1712 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
1713 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
1714 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
1715 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
1716 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
1717 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
1718 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1719 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
1721 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
1722 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
1723 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
1724 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
1725 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
1726 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
1727 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1728 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
1729 values in other threads.
1730 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
1731 about object allocation.
1732 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
1733 with a specialised code sequence.
1734 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
1735 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
1736 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
1737 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
1738 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
1739 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
1740 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
1741 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
1742 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
1743 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
1745 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
1747 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
1748 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
1749 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
1750 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
1751 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
1752 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
1753 unboxed format on x86[-64].
1754 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
1755 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
1756 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
1757 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
1758 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
1760 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
1761 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
1762 contains more pertinent information.
1763 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
1764 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
1765 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
1766 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
1767 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
1768 types. (reported by "abhi")
1769 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
1770 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
1771 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1772 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
1773 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
1774 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
1775 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
1776 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
1777 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
1778 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
1779 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1780 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
1781 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1782 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
1783 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
1784 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
1785 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
1786 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
1788 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
1789 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
1790 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
1791 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
1792 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1793 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
1794 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1796 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
1797 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
1798 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
1799 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
1800 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
1801 (no subscription required.)
1802 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
1803 types are weakened less aggressively.
1804 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
1805 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
1806 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
1807 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
1808 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
1809 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
1810 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
1811 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
1813 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
1814 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
1815 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
1816 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
1818 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
1819 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
1820 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
1822 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
1823 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
1824 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
1826 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
1827 is known are 50% faster.
1828 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
1829 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
1831 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
1832 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
1833 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
1834 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
1835 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
1837 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
1838 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
1839 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
1840 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
1841 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
1842 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
1844 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
1845 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
1846 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
1847 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
1848 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
1849 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1850 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
1851 to Tobias Rittweiler)
1852 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
1853 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
1854 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
1855 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
1856 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
1857 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1858 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
1859 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
1860 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
1861 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
1862 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
1864 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
1865 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
1866 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
1867 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
1869 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
1870 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
1871 result register (bug 316325).
1872 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
1873 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
1874 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
1875 generate incorrect code.
1876 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
1877 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
1878 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
1879 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
1881 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
1882 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
1883 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
1884 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
1885 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
1886 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
1887 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
1888 from :INITFORM, if any.
1890 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
1891 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
1892 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
1893 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
1894 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
1896 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
1897 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
1898 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
1899 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
1900 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
1901 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1902 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
1903 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
1904 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1905 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
1907 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
1908 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1909 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
1910 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
1911 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
1912 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
1913 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1914 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
1915 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
1916 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
1917 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
1918 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
1919 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
1920 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1921 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
1922 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
1923 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
1925 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
1926 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1927 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
1928 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
1929 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
1930 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
1931 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
1932 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
1934 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
1935 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1936 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
1937 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
1938 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
1940 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
1941 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
1942 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
1943 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
1944 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
1945 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
1946 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
1947 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
1948 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
1949 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
1950 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
1951 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
1952 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
1953 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
1954 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
1955 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
1957 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
1958 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
1959 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
1960 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
1961 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
1962 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
1963 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
1964 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
1965 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
1966 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
1967 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
1968 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
1969 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
1970 recursive errors or deadlock.
1971 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
1972 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
1973 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
1975 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
1976 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
1977 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
1978 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
1979 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
1980 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
1981 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
1982 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
1984 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
1985 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
1986 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
1987 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
1988 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1989 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
1990 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
1991 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
1993 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
1994 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
1995 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
1996 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
1997 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
1998 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
1999 their constant arguments.
2000 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
2001 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2002 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
2003 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
2004 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
2005 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
2006 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
2007 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
2008 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
2009 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
2010 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
2011 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
2012 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
2013 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
2014 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
2015 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
2016 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
2017 * improvements to the Windows port:
2018 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
2019 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
2021 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
2022 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
2023 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
2024 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
2025 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2026 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
2027 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
2028 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
2029 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
2030 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
2031 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
2032 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
2033 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
2034 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
2036 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
2038 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
2039 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
2040 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
2041 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2042 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
2043 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2044 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
2045 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2046 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
2047 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
2049 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
2050 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
2051 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
2052 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
2053 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
2054 compile-time style-warning.
2055 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
2056 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
2057 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
2058 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
2059 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
2060 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
2061 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
2062 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
2063 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
2064 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
2065 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
2066 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
2067 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
2068 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
2069 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
2070 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
2072 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
2073 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
2074 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
2075 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
2076 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
2077 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
2078 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
2079 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
2080 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
2082 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
2084 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
2087 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
2088 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
2089 for the associated fast function is also produced.
2090 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
2092 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
2093 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
2094 special handling by the pretty printer.
2095 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
2096 now interact correctly with type declarations.
2097 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
2098 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2099 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
2100 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
2101 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
2102 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
2103 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
2104 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
2106 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
2107 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
2108 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
2109 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
2110 object loading function as-it.
2111 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
2112 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
2114 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
2115 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
2117 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
2118 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
2119 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
2120 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2121 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
2122 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
2123 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
2124 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
2125 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
2127 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
2128 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
2129 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
2130 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
2131 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
2132 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
2133 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2134 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
2135 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2136 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
2137 file descriptors when there were none.
2138 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
2139 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
2140 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
2141 pathnames without a directory.
2142 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
2143 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
2144 not signal an error.
2145 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
2146 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
2147 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
2148 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
2149 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
2150 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
2151 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
2152 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
2154 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
2155 after alien stack frames.
2156 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
2158 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
2159 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
2160 generic function across method addition and removal.
2161 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
2162 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
2163 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
2164 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
2166 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
2167 non-local transfer of control.
2168 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
2169 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
2170 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
2171 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
2172 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
2173 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
2174 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
2176 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
2177 owned by other threads anymore.
2178 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
2179 subsequence. (reported by budden)
2180 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
2181 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
2182 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
2183 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
2185 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
2186 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
2187 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
2188 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
2189 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
2190 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
2191 added to the user manual.
2192 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
2193 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
2194 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
2195 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
2196 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
2197 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
2199 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
2201 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
2202 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
2203 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
2204 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
2205 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
2206 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
2207 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
2209 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
2210 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
2212 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
2213 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
2214 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
2215 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
2216 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
2217 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
2218 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
2220 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
2221 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
2223 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
2224 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
2225 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
2226 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
2227 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
2228 type of a variable is made.
2229 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
2230 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
2232 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
2233 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2234 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
2235 (thanks to Michael Weber)
2236 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
2237 (thanks to Michael Weber)
2238 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
2239 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
2240 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
2242 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
2243 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
2244 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
2245 of the type that's the value of this variable.
2246 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
2248 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
2249 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
2250 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
2251 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
2252 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
2253 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
2254 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
2255 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
2256 * improvements to the Windows port:
2257 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
2258 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
2259 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2260 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
2261 to single-float coercions.
2262 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
2263 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
2264 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
2265 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
2266 containing invalid type specifiers.
2267 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
2268 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
2270 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
2271 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
2272 profiles only the current thread.
2273 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
2274 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
2275 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
2276 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
2277 has also additional sorting options.
2278 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
2280 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
2281 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
2282 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
2283 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
2284 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
2285 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
2287 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
2289 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
2290 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
2291 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
2292 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
2293 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
2294 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
2296 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
2297 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2298 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
2299 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
2300 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
2301 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
2302 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
2303 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
2304 (thanks to James Knight)
2305 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
2306 (thanks to Travis Cross)
2307 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2308 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
2309 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
2310 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
2311 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
2312 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
2313 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
2315 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
2316 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
2317 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
2318 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
2319 use this feature in the meanwhile.
2320 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
2321 adjust thread default control stack size.
2322 * enhancement: improved TIME output
2323 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
2324 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
2325 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
2326 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
2327 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
2328 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
2329 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
2330 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
2332 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
2334 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
2335 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
2336 in normal SPEED policies.
2337 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
2338 in normal SPEED policies.
2339 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
2340 to Sidney Markowitz)
2341 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
2342 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2343 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
2344 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2345 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
2346 as the second argument.
2347 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
2348 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
2349 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
2351 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
2352 platform word lengths.
2353 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
2354 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
2355 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
2357 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
2358 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2360 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
2361 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
2362 signaling added in 1.0.14.
2363 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
2364 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
2365 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
2366 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
2367 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
2368 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2369 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
2370 on threaded platforms.
2371 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
2372 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
2373 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
2374 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
2375 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
2376 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
2377 representation is available.
2378 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
2379 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
2380 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
2381 Francois-Rene Rideau)
2382 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2383 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2384 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
2385 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
2386 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
2387 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
2388 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
2389 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
2390 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
2392 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
2393 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
2394 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
2395 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
2396 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
2397 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
2398 traces SETF-functions as well.
2399 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
2400 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
2401 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
2402 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
2404 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
2405 is now more efficient.
2406 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
2407 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
2408 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
2409 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
2410 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
2411 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2412 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
2413 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
2414 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
2415 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
2416 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
2418 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
2419 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
2420 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
2421 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
2422 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
2423 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
2424 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
2425 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
2426 * improvements to the Windows port:
2427 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
2428 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
2430 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
2431 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
2432 (see documentation for details.)
2433 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
2434 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
2435 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
2436 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
2437 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
2439 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
2440 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
2441 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
2442 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
2443 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
2444 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
2445 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
2446 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
2447 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
2449 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
2450 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
2451 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
2452 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
2453 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
2454 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
2455 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
2457 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
2458 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
2459 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
2460 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
2461 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
2462 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
2463 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
2464 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
2466 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
2467 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
2468 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
2469 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
2470 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
2471 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
2472 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
2473 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
2474 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
2475 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2476 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
2477 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
2478 known at compile-time.
2479 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
2480 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
2481 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
2483 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
2484 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
2486 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
2487 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2488 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2489 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
2490 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
2491 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
2493 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
2495 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
2497 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
2500 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
2501 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
2502 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
2503 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
2504 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
2505 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
2506 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
2507 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
2508 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
2509 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
2510 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
2511 END is smaller then START.
2512 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
2513 calls to profiled functions.
2514 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
2515 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
2516 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
2517 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
2518 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
2519 hash-table usage have been fixed.
2520 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
2521 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
2522 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
2523 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
2524 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
2525 slime to work again.
2527 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
2528 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
2529 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
2530 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
2531 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
2532 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
2533 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
2534 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
2535 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
2536 and will signal an error at runtime.
2537 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
2538 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
2539 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
2541 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
2542 platforms providing stack allocation support.
2543 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
2544 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
2546 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
2547 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
2548 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
2549 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2550 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
2551 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
2553 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
2554 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
2556 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
2558 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
2559 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
2560 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
2561 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
2562 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
2563 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
2564 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
2565 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
2566 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
2567 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2568 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
2569 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
2570 a specializer parameter for the method.
2571 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
2572 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
2573 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
2574 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
2575 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
2577 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
2578 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
2580 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
2581 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
2582 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2583 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
2584 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
2585 the CAS operation was being performed.
2586 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
2587 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
2588 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
2589 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
2592 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
2593 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
2594 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
2595 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
2597 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
2598 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
2599 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2600 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
2601 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
2602 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2603 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
2604 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
2605 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
2606 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
2607 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
2608 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
2609 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
2610 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
2611 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
2613 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
2614 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
2615 the underlying file descriptor.
2616 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
2617 could cause buffer-overflows.
2618 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
2619 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
2620 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
2622 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
2624 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
2625 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
2626 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
2627 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
2628 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
2629 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
2632 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
2633 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
2634 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
2635 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
2636 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
2637 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
2638 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
2640 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
2642 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
2643 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
2644 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
2645 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
2646 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
2647 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
2649 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
2650 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
2651 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
2652 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
2653 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
2654 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
2655 objects that can be seen by the GC.
2656 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
2657 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
2658 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
2660 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
2661 as the property-list of a symbol.
2662 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
2663 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
2664 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
2667 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
2668 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
2669 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
2670 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
2671 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
2672 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
2673 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
2674 debugging and introspective support.
2675 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
2676 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
2677 has the owning thread as its value.
2678 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
2679 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
2681 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
2682 "a constant string".
2683 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
2684 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
2685 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
2686 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2687 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
2688 (depending on the bignum size.)
2689 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
2691 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
2692 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
2694 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
2695 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
2697 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
2698 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
2699 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
2700 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
2701 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
2704 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
2705 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
2706 as a contrib module.
2707 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
2708 significantly faster.
2709 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2710 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
2711 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2712 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2713 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
2714 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
2715 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
2716 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
2717 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2718 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
2719 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
2721 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
2723 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
2724 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
2725 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
2726 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
2727 that use the generational garbage collector
2728 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
2730 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
2731 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
2733 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
2735 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
2736 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
2737 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
2738 system running with GC inhibited.
2739 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
2740 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
2741 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
2742 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
2743 (reported by Peter Graves)
2745 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
2746 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
2747 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
2749 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
2750 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
2751 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
2752 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
2753 documented as unsafe.
2754 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
2755 in multithreaded application code.
2756 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
2757 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
2758 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
2760 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
2761 variants no longer cons.
2762 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
2763 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
2764 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
2765 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
2766 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
2767 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
2768 are significantly faster.
2769 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
2770 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
2771 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
2772 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
2773 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
2774 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
2775 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
2776 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
2777 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
2778 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
2779 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
2781 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
2782 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
2783 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
2784 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2785 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
2786 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2787 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
2788 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2789 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
2790 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
2791 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
2792 line in a file is unlimited.
2793 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
2794 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
2795 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
2796 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
2797 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
2798 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
2799 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
2800 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2801 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
2802 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
2803 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2804 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
2805 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
2806 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
2807 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
2808 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
2809 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
2810 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
2811 experimental until this is fixed.
2812 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
2813 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2814 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
2815 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
2816 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
2818 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
2819 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
2820 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
2821 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
2822 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
2823 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
2825 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
2826 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
2827 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2828 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
2829 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
2830 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
2831 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2832 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
2833 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
2835 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
2836 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
2837 (reported by Andras Simon)
2838 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
2839 bugs remain on x86-64.)
2840 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
2841 funcallable instances.
2842 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
2843 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
2845 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
2846 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2847 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
2848 non-base strings as arguments
2849 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
2851 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
2852 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
2854 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
2855 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
2856 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2857 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
2858 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2859 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2860 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
2861 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
2862 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
2864 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
2865 (thanks to Jon Buller)
2866 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
2867 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
2870 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
2871 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
2872 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
2874 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
2875 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
2876 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
2877 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
2878 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
2880 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
2881 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
2882 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
2883 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2884 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
2885 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2886 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
2887 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
2888 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
2889 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
2890 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2891 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
2892 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
2893 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
2894 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
2895 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
2896 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2897 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2898 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
2899 stack frames from alien callbacks.
2900 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2901 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
2902 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
2903 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2905 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
2906 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
2907 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
2908 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
2909 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
2910 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
2911 sb-introspect contrib.
2912 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
2913 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
2914 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
2915 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
2916 users and the general community)
2917 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
2918 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
2919 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
2920 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
2921 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2922 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
2923 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
2924 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2925 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
2926 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2927 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
2928 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
2929 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
2930 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
2931 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
2932 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
2934 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
2935 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
2936 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
2937 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
2938 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
2939 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
2940 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
2942 * improvements to the Windows port:
2943 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
2944 to Alastair Bridgewater)
2945 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
2947 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
2948 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2950 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
2951 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
2952 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2953 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
2954 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
2955 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
2956 core, and restored on startup.
2957 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
2958 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2959 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
2960 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
2961 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
2962 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
2963 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
2965 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
2966 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2967 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
2969 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
2970 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
2971 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
2973 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
2974 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2975 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
2976 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2977 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
2978 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
2980 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
2981 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
2982 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
2983 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
2984 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
2985 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
2986 (reported by Josip Gracin)
2987 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
2988 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
2989 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
2990 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
2991 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
2992 and don't cause extra consing
2993 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
2994 whose elements types have been declared.
2995 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
2996 ** Support for allocation profiling
2997 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
2998 * Improvements to the Windows port:
2999 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
3000 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
3001 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
3002 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
3004 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
3005 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
3006 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
3007 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
3008 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
3010 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
3011 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
3012 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
3014 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
3015 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
3016 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
3017 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
3018 with non-variable places
3019 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
3020 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
3021 code more stable against memory faults.
3022 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
3023 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
3024 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
3025 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
3028 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
3029 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
3030 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
3031 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
3032 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
3033 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
3034 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
3035 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
3036 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3037 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3038 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
3039 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
3040 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
3042 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
3043 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
3044 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
3045 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
3046 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
3047 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
3048 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
3050 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
3051 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
3053 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
3054 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
3055 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
3056 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
3057 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
3058 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
3059 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
3060 to the single-stepper REPL.
3061 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
3062 for a type now works.
3063 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
3065 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
3066 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
3067 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
3068 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3069 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
3070 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
3071 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
3072 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
3074 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
3075 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
3076 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
3077 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
3078 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
3079 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
3080 whose bindings are modified
3081 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
3082 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
3083 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
3084 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
3086 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
3087 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
3088 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
3089 as specified by AMOP.
3090 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
3092 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
3093 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3094 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
3095 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
3096 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
3097 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
3098 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
3099 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
3100 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
3101 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
3102 better type inference.
3103 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
3104 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
3105 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
3106 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
3107 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
3108 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3109 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
3110 initialization of methods can now be used to override
3111 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
3113 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
3114 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
3115 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
3116 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
3117 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
3119 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
3120 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
3121 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
3122 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
3123 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
3124 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
3125 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
3126 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
3127 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
3128 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
3129 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
3130 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
3131 (reported by James Y Knight).
3132 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
3133 argument for shadowing by local functions.
3134 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
3136 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
3137 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
3138 with type-inference.
3139 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
3140 types in some cases.
3141 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
3142 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3143 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
3145 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
3146 * thread-safety improvements:
3147 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
3148 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
3149 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
3151 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
3152 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
3154 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
3155 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
3156 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
3158 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
3159 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
3160 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
3161 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
3162 class became finalizeable.
3163 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
3164 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
3165 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
3166 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
3168 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
3169 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
3170 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
3171 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
3172 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
3173 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
3174 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3175 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
3176 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
3177 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
3178 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
3179 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
3180 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
3181 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3182 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
3183 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
3184 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
3185 * minor code generation optimizations:
3186 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
3187 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
3188 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
3189 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
3190 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
3191 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3192 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
3193 return its argument.
3195 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
3196 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
3198 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
3200 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
3201 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
3202 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
3203 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
3204 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
3205 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
3206 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
3207 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
3208 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
3209 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
3210 the low-level debugger.
3211 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
3212 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
3213 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
3214 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
3216 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
3217 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
3218 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
3220 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
3221 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3222 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
3223 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
3224 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
3225 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
3226 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
3227 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
3228 (reported by James Y Knight)
3229 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
3230 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
3231 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
3232 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
3233 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
3234 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
3235 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
3236 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
3237 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
3238 workaround for bug 403.)
3239 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
3240 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3241 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3242 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
3244 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
3245 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
3246 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
3248 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
3249 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
3250 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
3251 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
3252 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
3254 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
3256 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
3257 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
3258 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
3261 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
3262 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
3263 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
3264 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
3265 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
3266 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
3267 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
3268 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
3269 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
3270 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
3271 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
3272 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
3273 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
3274 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
3275 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
3276 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
3277 documentation on package locks for details.
3278 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
3280 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
3281 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
3282 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
3283 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
3284 immediately available from the stream
3285 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
3286 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
3287 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
3288 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
3290 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
3291 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
3292 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
3294 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
3295 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
3296 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
3298 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
3299 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
3300 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
3301 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
3303 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
3304 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
3305 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
3306 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3307 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
3308 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
3309 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3310 ** sb-grovel supported
3311 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
3312 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
3313 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
3314 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
3315 ** floating-point exception handling support
3316 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
3317 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3318 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
3319 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
3320 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
3321 structure accessors.
3322 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
3324 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
3325 defaults for optional parameters.
3326 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
3327 function, which is already optimized.
3329 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
3330 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
3331 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
3332 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
3333 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
3334 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
3335 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
3336 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
3337 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
3338 this change is to make it easier to distribute
3339 location-independent binaries.
3340 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
3341 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
3343 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
3344 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
3345 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
3346 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
3347 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
3348 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
3349 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
3350 Alastair Bridgewater)
3351 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
3352 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
3353 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3354 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
3355 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
3356 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
3357 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
3358 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
3359 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
3360 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
3361 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
3362 (thanks to James Knight)
3363 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
3364 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
3366 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
3367 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
3368 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
3369 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
3370 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
3371 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
3372 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
3373 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
3374 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
3375 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
3376 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
3377 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
3378 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
3379 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
3380 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
3381 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
3382 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
3383 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
3384 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
3385 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
3386 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
3388 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
3389 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
3390 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
3391 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3392 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
3393 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
3395 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
3396 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
3397 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
3398 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
3399 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
3400 many others over the years)
3401 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
3402 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
3403 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
3405 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
3406 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
3407 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3408 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
3409 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
3410 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
3412 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
3414 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
3415 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
3416 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
3417 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
3418 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
3419 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
3420 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
3421 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
3422 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
3423 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
3424 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
3425 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3426 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
3427 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3429 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
3430 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3431 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
3432 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
3433 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
3434 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
3435 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
3436 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
3437 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
3438 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3439 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
3440 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
3441 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
3442 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
3443 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
3444 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
3445 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
3446 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3447 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
3448 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
3450 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
3451 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3452 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
3453 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
3454 index variables in LOOP
3455 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
3456 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3457 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
3458 that don't have a docstring
3460 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
3461 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3462 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
3463 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
3464 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
3465 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
3466 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
3467 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
3468 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
3469 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
3470 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
3471 Costanza's "Closer" project)
3472 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
3473 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
3475 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
3476 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
3477 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
3478 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
3479 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
3480 and Pascal Costanza)
3481 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
3482 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
3483 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
3484 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
3485 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3486 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
3487 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
3488 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
3489 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3490 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
3491 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3492 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
3493 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3494 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
3495 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3496 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
3497 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
3498 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
3499 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
3501 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
3502 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3503 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
3504 floating point index variable or a negative step.
3506 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
3507 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
3508 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
3509 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
3510 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
3511 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3512 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
3513 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
3514 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
3515 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
3516 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
3517 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
3518 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
3519 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
3520 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3521 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
3522 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
3523 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
3524 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
3525 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
3526 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
3527 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3528 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
3529 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3530 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
3531 and dump core on SIGQUIT
3533 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
3534 from their parents (see manual)
3535 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
3536 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
3537 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
3538 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
3539 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
3540 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
3542 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3543 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
3544 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
3545 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
3547 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
3548 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
3549 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
3551 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
3552 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
3553 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
3554 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
3555 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
3556 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
3557 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
3558 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
3559 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
3560 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
3561 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
3562 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
3563 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
3564 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
3566 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
3567 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
3568 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
3570 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
3571 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
3573 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
3574 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3575 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
3576 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
3577 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
3578 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
3579 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
3580 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
3581 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
3583 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
3584 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
3585 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
3586 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
3587 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
3588 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
3590 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
3592 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
3593 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
3594 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
3595 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
3596 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
3597 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
3598 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
3599 classes; see the manual for more details;
3600 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
3601 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
3602 requested slot ordering.
3604 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
3606 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
3607 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
3609 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
3611 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
3612 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
3613 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
3614 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
3615 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3616 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
3617 the :method-class keyword argument.
3619 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
3620 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
3621 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
3622 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3623 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
3624 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3625 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
3626 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3627 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
3628 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
3629 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
3631 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
3632 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
3633 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
3634 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
3635 is switched on or off
3636 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
3637 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
3638 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
3640 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
3641 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3642 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
3643 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
3644 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3645 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
3646 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
3647 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
3648 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
3650 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
3651 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
3652 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
3653 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
3654 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
3655 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
3656 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
3658 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
3659 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
3660 not prevent gc from running
3661 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
3662 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
3663 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
3664 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
3665 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
3666 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
3667 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
3668 an inline 32-bit rotation.
3670 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
3671 there is only one thread in the session
3672 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
3673 written to in another
3674 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
3675 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
3677 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
3678 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
3680 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
3681 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3682 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
3683 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
3684 the orignal arguments.
3685 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
3687 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
3688 name a compiled function.
3689 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
3690 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
3691 derivation were fixed.
3692 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
3693 list-form FUNCTION type.
3694 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
3695 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
3696 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
3698 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
3699 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
3700 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
3701 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
3702 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
3703 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
3705 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
3706 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
3707 of a select system call
3708 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
3710 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
3711 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
3713 * various error reporting improvements.
3714 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
3715 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3716 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
3717 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
3718 code and foreign data with the same name.
3720 ** added x86-64 support
3721 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
3722 objects instead of thread ids
3723 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
3724 starting up or going down
3725 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
3726 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
3727 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
3728 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
3729 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
3730 an inappropriate moment
3731 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
3732 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
3733 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
3734 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3735 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
3736 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
3737 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
3739 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
3740 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
3741 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
3742 range before calling Unix time functions
3744 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
3745 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
3746 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3747 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
3748 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
3749 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
3750 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3751 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
3752 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
3753 for more information.
3754 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
3755 pathname is a directory pathname.
3756 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
3757 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
3759 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
3760 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
3761 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
3762 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
3763 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
3764 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
3766 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
3767 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
3768 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
3769 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
3770 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
3771 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
3772 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3773 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
3774 the PowerPC platform.
3775 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
3776 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
3778 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
3779 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
3780 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
3781 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
3782 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
3783 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3785 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
3786 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
3787 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
3788 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
3789 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
3790 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3791 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
3792 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
3793 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
3794 as the name of a type, or vice versa
3795 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
3796 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
3797 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
3798 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
3799 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
3800 FLET or MACROLET forms
3801 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
3803 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
3805 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
3808 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
3809 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
3810 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
3811 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
3812 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
3813 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
3814 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
3815 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
3816 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
3817 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
3818 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
3819 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
3820 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
3821 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
3822 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
3823 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3824 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
3825 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3826 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
3827 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
3828 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
3829 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
3831 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3832 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
3833 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
3834 a file has the stream as its datum.
3835 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
3836 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
3837 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
3838 a correct expected type
3839 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
3840 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
3841 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
3842 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
3843 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
3844 on broadcast streams.
3846 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
3847 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3848 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
3849 --disable-debugger option instead.
3850 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
3852 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
3853 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
3854 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
3855 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
3856 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
3857 has been added to the manual.
3858 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
3859 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
3860 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
3861 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
3862 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
3863 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
3864 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
3865 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
3866 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
3867 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
3869 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
3870 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
3871 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
3872 (reported by Rajat Datta).
3873 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
3874 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
3876 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
3877 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
3878 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
3879 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
3880 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
3881 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
3882 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
3883 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
3884 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
3885 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
3886 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3887 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
3888 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3889 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
3890 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
3891 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3892 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3893 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
3894 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3896 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
3898 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
3899 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
3900 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
3901 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
3902 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
3904 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
3905 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
3906 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
3907 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
3908 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3909 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
3910 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
3912 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3913 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
3914 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
3916 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
3917 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
3918 types for complex arguments better.
3919 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
3921 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
3922 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
3924 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
3925 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
3926 resulting in GC crashes.
3927 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
3929 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
3932 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
3933 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
3934 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
3935 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
3936 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
3937 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
3938 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
3939 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
3940 returning to the top level.
3941 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
3942 global optimization policy.
3943 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
3944 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
3945 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
3947 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
3948 various incompatible changes.
3949 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
3950 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
3951 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
3952 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
3953 level local call to FOO".
3954 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
3955 now have more legible printed representation
3956 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
3957 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
3958 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
3959 explicitly requested.
3960 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
3961 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
3962 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
3963 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
3964 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
3966 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
3967 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
3968 (reported by Lutz Euler)
3969 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
3970 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3971 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
3972 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
3973 the specializer is now possible.
3974 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
3975 face of package deletion.
3976 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
3977 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
3978 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
3979 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
3980 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
3981 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
3982 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
3983 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
3984 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3985 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
3987 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3988 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
3989 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
3990 correctable errors to be signalled.
3991 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
3992 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
3995 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
3996 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3997 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
3999 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
4000 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
4001 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
4002 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
4003 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
4004 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
4005 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
4006 related to the ~@F format directive.
4007 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
4009 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
4010 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
4011 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
4012 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
4014 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
4016 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
4017 coerce function designators to functions.
4018 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
4019 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
4020 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
4021 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
4022 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
4023 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
4024 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4025 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
4026 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
4027 start of the buffer at the next read.
4028 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
4029 passing it through to OPEN.
4030 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
4031 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
4032 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
4033 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
4034 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
4035 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
4036 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
4037 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
4039 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
4040 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
4041 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
4042 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
4043 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4044 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
4046 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4047 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
4048 secondary constituent character trait.
4049 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
4051 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
4053 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
4054 works more reliably.
4055 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
4056 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
4057 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
4059 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
4060 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
4062 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
4063 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
4064 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
4065 and reloading shared object files.
4066 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4067 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
4069 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
4070 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
4071 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
4073 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
4074 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
4076 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
4078 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
4079 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
4080 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
4081 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4082 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
4083 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
4084 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
4086 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
4087 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
4089 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
4090 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
4091 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
4092 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
4093 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
4095 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
4096 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
4097 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4098 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
4099 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
4100 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
4101 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
4102 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
4103 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
4104 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
4105 lisp characters are not eight bits.
4106 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4107 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
4108 the correct number of arguments.
4109 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
4110 to displaced strings.
4111 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
4112 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
4114 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
4115 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
4116 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
4117 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
4118 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
4119 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
4120 available at runtime.
4121 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
4122 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
4123 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
4124 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4125 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
4126 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
4127 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
4128 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
4129 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
4130 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
4131 of lambda-list keywords.
4132 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
4133 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
4135 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
4136 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
4137 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4138 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
4139 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
4140 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
4141 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
4143 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
4144 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
4145 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
4146 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
4147 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
4149 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4150 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
4151 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
4152 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
4153 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
4154 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4155 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
4157 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
4158 parameters correctly.
4159 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
4160 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
4161 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
4163 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
4166 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
4167 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
4168 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
4169 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
4171 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
4172 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
4173 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
4174 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
4175 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
4176 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
4177 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
4178 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
4179 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
4181 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
4182 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
4184 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
4186 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
4187 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
4188 (reported by Bruno Haible)
4189 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
4191 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
4192 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4193 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
4194 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
4195 (reported by David Morse)
4196 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
4197 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4198 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
4199 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4200 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
4201 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4202 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
4203 now exists, an signals an error.
4204 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
4205 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
4206 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4207 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
4208 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4209 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
4210 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
4211 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4212 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
4213 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4214 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
4215 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
4217 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
4218 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
4219 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
4220 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
4221 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4222 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
4223 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
4224 specialized array element types.
4225 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
4226 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4227 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
4228 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4229 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
4230 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
4231 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
4232 Wragg for the simple test case)
4233 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4234 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
4236 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
4237 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
4238 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
4239 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
4240 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
4242 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
4244 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
4245 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
4246 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
4247 references to global functions.
4248 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
4250 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
4252 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
4253 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4254 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
4255 supported platforms.
4256 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
4257 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
4258 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
4259 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
4260 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
4261 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
4262 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
4263 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
4264 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
4265 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
4266 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
4267 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
4268 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
4270 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
4271 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4272 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
4273 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
4274 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
4275 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
4277 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
4278 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
4280 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
4281 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
4282 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
4283 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4284 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
4285 returns the right answer.
4286 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
4288 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
4290 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
4291 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
4293 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
4294 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
4296 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
4297 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
4298 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
4299 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
4300 the supported interface.
4301 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
4302 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
4303 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4304 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
4305 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
4306 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
4307 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
4308 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
4309 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
4310 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
4311 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
4312 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
4313 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
4314 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
4315 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
4316 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
4317 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
4318 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
4319 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
4320 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
4321 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
4322 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
4323 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
4324 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
4325 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
4326 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
4327 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4328 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
4329 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
4331 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
4332 * incompatible change: the internal functions
4333 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
4334 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
4335 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
4336 instead of the old functions.
4337 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
4338 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
4340 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
4341 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
4343 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
4344 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
4345 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
4346 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
4348 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
4349 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4350 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
4351 (reported by Rick Taube)
4352 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
4353 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
4354 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
4355 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
4357 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
4358 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
4359 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
4360 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
4361 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
4362 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
4363 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
4364 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
4365 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
4366 represented relative to default pathnames.
4367 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
4368 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
4369 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
4371 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
4372 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
4373 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
4375 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4376 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
4377 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
4378 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
4380 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
4382 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
4383 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
4384 conditional newlines.
4385 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
4386 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
4387 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
4389 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
4390 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
4392 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
4393 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
4394 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
4395 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
4396 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
4397 compiled in unconditionally.
4398 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
4399 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
4400 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
4401 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
4402 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
4404 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
4405 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
4406 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
4407 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
4408 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
4409 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
4410 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
4411 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
4412 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
4413 an implementation-internal package.
4414 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
4416 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
4417 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
4418 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
4419 bodies are now more legible.
4420 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
4421 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
4422 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
4423 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
4424 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4425 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
4426 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
4428 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
4429 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
4430 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
4431 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
4432 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
4433 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
4434 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
4435 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
4436 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
4437 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
4439 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
4440 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
4441 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
4442 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
4443 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
4444 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
4445 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
4446 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
4447 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
4448 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
4449 system even when most of them are idle
4450 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
4451 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4452 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
4454 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
4455 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
4456 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
4457 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
4458 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
4460 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
4461 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
4462 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
4463 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
4464 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
4465 string for information on the protocol.
4466 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
4467 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
4469 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
4470 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
4472 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
4473 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
4474 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
4475 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
4476 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
4477 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
4479 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
4480 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
4482 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
4483 move between its address being taken and the call to
4484 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
4485 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
4486 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
4487 instances corresponding to C structs.
4489 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
4490 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
4491 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
4492 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
4493 has implications for memory management of client code
4494 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
4495 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
4496 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
4497 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
4498 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
4499 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
4500 quality should be considered deprecated.
4501 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
4502 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
4503 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
4504 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
4505 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
4507 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
4508 designator as the defaults argument.
4509 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
4510 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
4511 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4512 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
4513 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
4515 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
4517 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
4518 (thanks to Zach Beane)
4519 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
4520 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
4521 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4522 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
4524 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
4525 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4526 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
4527 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
4528 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
4529 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
4530 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4531 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
4532 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
4533 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
4534 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
4535 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4536 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
4537 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
4538 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
4539 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
4540 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
4542 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
4543 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
4544 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
4546 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
4547 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4548 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
4549 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
4550 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
4551 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
4552 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4553 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
4554 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
4556 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
4557 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
4559 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
4560 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
4562 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
4563 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
4564 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
4565 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
4567 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
4568 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
4569 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4570 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
4571 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
4572 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
4573 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
4574 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
4576 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
4577 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
4578 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
4580 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
4581 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
4583 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4584 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
4586 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
4587 from local to shared slots.
4588 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
4589 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
4590 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
4591 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
4593 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
4594 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
4595 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
4596 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
4597 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
4598 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
4599 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
4600 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
4601 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
4603 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
4605 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
4607 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
4608 print using #P"..." syntax.
4610 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
4611 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
4612 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
4613 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
4614 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
4615 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
4616 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
4617 * [placeholder for DX summary]
4618 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
4619 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
4620 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
4621 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
4622 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
4623 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
4624 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
4625 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
4626 the test case to Dave Roberts)
4627 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
4628 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
4629 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
4630 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
4631 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
4632 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
4633 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
4634 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4635 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
4636 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
4637 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
4638 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
4639 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4640 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
4641 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
4644 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
4645 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
4646 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
4647 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
4648 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
4649 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
4650 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
4651 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
4652 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
4653 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4654 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
4655 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
4656 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
4658 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
4659 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
4661 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
4662 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
4663 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4664 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
4665 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4666 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
4668 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
4669 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
4670 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
4672 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
4674 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
4676 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
4677 their output stream on EOF from read.
4678 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
4679 have been read to end-of-file.
4680 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
4682 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
4683 description of determination of which consecutive characters
4685 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
4686 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
4687 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4688 less than 10 works correctly.
4689 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4690 more than 10 works correctly.
4691 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
4692 the readtable currently in effect.
4694 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
4695 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
4696 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
4697 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
4698 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
4699 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
4700 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
4701 should usually be replaced by
4702 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
4703 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
4704 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
4705 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
4706 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
4707 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
4708 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
4709 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
4711 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
4712 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
4713 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4714 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
4715 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
4716 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4717 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
4718 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
4719 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
4720 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
4721 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
4722 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
4723 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
4725 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
4726 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
4727 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
4728 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4729 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
4730 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
4731 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
4732 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4733 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
4734 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
4735 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
4736 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
4737 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
4738 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
4739 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4740 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
4741 non-local entry points.
4742 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
4744 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4745 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
4747 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
4748 host is already defined.
4749 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
4751 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
4752 or not a character is whitespace.
4753 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
4754 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
4755 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
4757 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
4758 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
4760 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
4762 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
4763 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
4764 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
4765 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
4766 designator argument does not designate a stream.
4767 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
4768 examining the synonym.
4769 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
4771 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
4772 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
4774 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
4775 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
4776 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
4777 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
4778 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
4779 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
4780 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
4781 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
4782 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
4783 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4784 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
4785 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
4787 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
4788 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
4789 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4790 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
4791 stream position information.
4792 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
4793 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
4794 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
4795 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
4796 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4797 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
4799 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
4800 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
4802 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4803 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4804 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
4805 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
4806 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
4807 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
4808 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
4810 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
4812 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
4813 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
4814 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
4815 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
4816 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
4817 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
4818 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
4819 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
4820 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
4821 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
4822 the "SYS" logical host.
4823 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
4824 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
4825 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
4826 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4827 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
4828 now each have their own history, command character, and other
4829 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4830 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4831 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
4833 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
4834 shift greater than 32.
4835 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
4836 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
4837 in some circumstances.
4839 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
4840 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
4841 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
4842 environments like SLIME.
4843 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
4844 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
4845 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
4846 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
4847 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
4848 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
4849 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
4850 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
4851 argument types for all arguments.
4852 * various threading fixes
4853 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
4854 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
4855 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
4856 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
4858 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
4859 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
4860 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
4861 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
4862 arguments to a full call.
4863 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
4864 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
4865 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
4866 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
4868 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
4869 inserts a space where necessary.
4870 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
4871 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
4872 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
4873 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
4874 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
4875 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
4876 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
4877 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
4878 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
4879 counter now raises a meaningful error.
4880 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
4881 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
4883 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
4884 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
4885 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
4887 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
4889 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4890 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
4891 argument and negative second.
4892 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
4893 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
4894 interval, containing 0.
4895 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
4897 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
4898 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
4900 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
4901 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
4902 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
4903 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
4904 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
4905 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
4906 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
4907 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
4908 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
4909 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
4910 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
4911 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
4912 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
4913 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
4914 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
4915 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
4916 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
4917 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
4918 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
4919 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
4920 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
4921 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4922 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
4923 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
4924 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
4925 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
4926 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
4927 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
4928 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
4930 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
4931 platform now returns the right answer.
4932 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
4933 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
4934 precomputation is now tunable.
4935 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
4936 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
4937 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
4938 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
4939 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
4940 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
4941 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
4942 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
4943 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
4944 has been added for the alpha.
4945 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
4946 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
4947 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
4948 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
4949 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
4950 MEMBER-types to numeric.
4951 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
4953 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
4954 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
4955 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
4957 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
4958 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4959 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
4960 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
4961 might be pseudo-atomic.
4962 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
4963 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
4965 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
4967 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
4969 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
4970 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
4971 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
4972 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
4973 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
4974 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
4976 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4977 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
4978 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
4979 small float arguments.
4980 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
4982 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
4983 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
4984 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
4985 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
4986 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
4987 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
4989 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
4991 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
4992 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
4993 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
4994 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
4995 with negative last argument.
4996 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
4997 an error during type derivation.
4998 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
5000 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
5001 generates a 32-bit binary.
5002 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
5003 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
5004 data structures referred to above).
5006 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
5007 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
5008 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
5009 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
5010 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
5011 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
5012 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
5013 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
5014 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
5015 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5016 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
5017 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
5019 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
5020 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
5022 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
5023 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
5024 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
5025 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
5026 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
5027 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
5028 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
5029 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
5030 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
5031 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
5032 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
5033 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
5034 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
5035 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
5036 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
5037 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
5038 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
5039 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5040 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
5041 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
5042 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
5043 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
5044 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5045 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
5046 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
5047 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
5048 optimization quality.
5049 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
5050 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
5051 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
5052 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
5053 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
5054 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5055 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
5056 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
5057 types form a lattice under type intersection.
5058 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
5059 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
5060 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
5061 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
5062 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
5063 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
5064 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
5065 calling the generic function.
5066 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
5067 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
5068 obscure ANSI requirements
5070 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
5071 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
5072 garbage, confusing the compiler.
5073 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
5074 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
5075 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
5076 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
5077 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
5078 circumstances could go off-by-one.
5079 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
5081 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
5082 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
5083 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
5084 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
5085 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
5086 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
5087 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
5088 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
5089 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
5090 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
5091 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
5092 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
5093 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
5094 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
5095 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
5096 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
5097 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
5098 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
5099 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
5100 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
5102 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
5103 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
5104 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
5105 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
5107 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
5108 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
5109 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
5110 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
5111 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
5112 provide helpful disassembly notes.
5113 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
5114 the class in more cases than previously.
5115 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
5116 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5117 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
5118 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
5119 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
5120 without lambda list.
5121 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
5122 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
5123 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5124 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
5125 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
5126 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
5128 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
5129 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
5130 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
5132 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
5133 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
5134 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
5135 were silently accepted).
5136 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
5137 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
5138 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
5139 to warn on static type mismatches and function
5140 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
5141 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
5142 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
5143 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
5144 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
5145 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
5146 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
5147 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
5148 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
5149 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
5151 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
5152 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
5153 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
5154 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
5155 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
5156 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
5158 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
5159 keywords or constants is permissible.
5160 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
5161 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
5162 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
5163 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
5164 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
5165 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
5166 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
5167 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
5169 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
5170 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
5171 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
5172 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
5173 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5174 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
5175 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
5177 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
5179 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
5180 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
5181 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
5182 respectively change and preserve the value.
5183 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
5184 is now better at handling symbol macros.
5185 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
5186 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
5187 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
5188 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
5189 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
5190 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
5191 their use properly signals an error now.
5192 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
5193 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
5194 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
5195 * fixed simple vector readable printing
5196 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
5197 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
5198 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
5199 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
5200 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
5201 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
5202 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5203 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
5204 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5205 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
5206 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
5207 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5208 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
5209 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
5210 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
5211 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
5212 causes a type error.
5213 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
5214 association between the name and a class.
5215 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
5216 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
5217 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5218 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
5219 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
5220 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
5222 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
5223 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
5224 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
5225 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
5227 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
5228 which its argument is a member.
5229 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
5230 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
5231 otherwise, it creates a new class.
5232 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
5233 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
5234 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
5235 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
5236 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
5237 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
5239 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
5240 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
5241 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
5242 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
5243 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
5244 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
5245 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
5247 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
5248 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
5249 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
5250 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
5251 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
5252 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
5253 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
5254 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
5255 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
5256 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
5257 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
5258 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
5259 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5260 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
5262 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
5263 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
5264 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
5265 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
5266 superclasses are applied.
5267 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
5268 no method was removed.
5269 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
5270 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
5271 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
5272 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
5274 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
5276 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
5277 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
5278 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
5279 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
5280 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
5281 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
5282 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
5283 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
5284 function lambda list.
5285 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
5287 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
5288 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
5289 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
5290 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
5292 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
5293 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
5294 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
5295 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
5296 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
5297 they look for GNU "make".
5299 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
5300 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
5301 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
5302 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
5304 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
5305 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
5306 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
5307 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
5308 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
5309 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
5310 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
5311 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
5312 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
5313 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
5315 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
5316 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
5317 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
5318 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
5319 libraries, and will know who they are.
5320 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
5321 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
5322 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
5323 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
5324 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
5325 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
5326 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
5327 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
5329 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
5330 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
5331 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
5332 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
5333 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
5334 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
5335 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
5336 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
5337 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
5338 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
5339 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5340 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
5342 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
5343 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
5344 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
5345 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
5346 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
5347 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
5348 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
5349 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
5350 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
5352 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
5353 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
5354 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
5355 this you were probably losing anyway.
5356 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
5357 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
5358 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
5359 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
5360 with names from the CL package.
5361 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
5362 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
5363 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
5364 documentation string.
5365 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5366 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
5368 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
5369 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
5370 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
5371 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
5373 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
5374 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
5376 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
5377 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5378 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
5380 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
5381 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
5382 arguments contain duplicated elements.
5383 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
5384 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
5385 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
5386 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
5387 in question is unbound.
5388 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
5389 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
5390 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
5391 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
5392 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
5394 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
5396 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
5397 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
5398 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
5399 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
5400 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
5401 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
5402 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
5403 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
5404 by Antonio Martinez)
5405 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
5406 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5407 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
5408 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
5409 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
5410 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
5411 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
5412 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5413 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
5414 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
5415 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
5416 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
5417 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
5418 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
5419 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
5420 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
5421 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
5422 on malformed property lists;
5424 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
5425 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
5426 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
5427 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
5428 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
5429 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
5430 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
5431 modules in this release include:
5432 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
5433 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
5434 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
5435 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
5436 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
5438 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
5439 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
5440 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5441 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
5442 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
5443 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
5444 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
5445 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
5447 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
5448 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
5449 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
5450 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
5451 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
5452 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
5453 the lexical environment.
5454 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
5455 unprintable packages can now be defined.
5456 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
5457 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5458 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
5459 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5460 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
5461 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
5462 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
5463 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
5464 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
5465 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
5466 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
5467 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
5468 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5469 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
5470 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
5471 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
5472 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
5473 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
5474 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
5475 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
5476 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
5477 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
5478 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
5480 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
5481 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
5482 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
5483 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5484 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
5485 not just nonnegative fixnums;
5486 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
5487 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
5488 freshly-consed result bit-array);
5489 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
5491 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
5492 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
5494 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
5495 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
5496 cases are accurately computed;
5497 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
5498 if it is in the last clause;
5499 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
5501 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
5502 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
5503 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
5504 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
5506 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
5507 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
5508 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
5509 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
5510 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
5512 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
5513 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
5514 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
5515 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
5517 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5518 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
5519 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
5520 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
5521 not cause a type error;
5522 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
5524 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
5525 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
5526 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
5527 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
5528 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
5529 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
5530 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
5531 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
5533 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
5534 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
5535 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
5536 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
5537 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
5538 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
5540 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
5541 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
5543 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
5544 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
5545 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
5546 only for symbols in the CL package.
5547 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
5548 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5549 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
5550 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
5551 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
5553 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5554 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
5555 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
5556 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
5557 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
5558 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
5559 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
5560 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
5561 conditional loop clause;
5562 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
5563 signals a type error iff it should.
5564 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5565 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
5566 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
5567 argument) no longer signals an error;
5568 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
5569 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
5570 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
5572 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
5573 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
5574 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
5576 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
5577 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
5578 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
5579 functionality on said platforms verified.
5580 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
5581 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
5583 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
5584 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
5585 component indicating that directory.
5586 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
5587 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
5588 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
5589 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
5590 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5591 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
5593 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
5594 primary methods with no specializers;
5595 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
5597 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
5598 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
5599 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
5600 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
5602 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
5603 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
5604 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
5606 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
5607 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
5608 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
5609 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
5610 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
5611 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
5612 class STANDARD-CLASS;
5613 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
5614 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5615 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
5616 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
5618 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
5619 value producing form;
5620 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
5621 variables are bound and made to have no value;
5622 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
5624 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
5625 is not a valid sequence index;
5626 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
5627 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
5628 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5629 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
5631 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
5632 symbol-macro places;
5633 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
5634 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
5636 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
5638 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
5640 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
5641 invariant when deleting code.
5642 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
5643 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
5645 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
5646 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5647 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
5649 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
5650 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
5652 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
5653 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
5654 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5655 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
5657 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
5658 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5659 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
5660 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
5662 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
5663 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
5664 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
5665 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
5666 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5667 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
5668 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
5669 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
5670 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
5671 sbcl and .core files.)
5672 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
5673 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
5674 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
5675 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
5676 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
5677 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5678 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
5680 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
5681 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
5682 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
5683 argument precedence order.
5684 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
5685 derived types contradict their declared type.
5686 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
5687 so it can be non-toplevel.
5688 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
5689 implementation of DEFMACRO).
5690 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
5691 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
5692 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
5694 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
5695 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
5696 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
5697 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
5698 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
5699 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
5700 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
5701 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
5702 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
5703 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
5704 symbol macro only once
5705 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
5706 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
5707 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
5710 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
5711 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
5712 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
5713 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
5714 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
5715 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
5716 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
5717 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
5718 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
5719 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5720 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
5721 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
5723 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
5724 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
5725 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
5726 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
5727 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5728 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
5730 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
5732 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
5733 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
5734 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
5735 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
5736 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5737 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
5738 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
5739 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
5740 ways in different special cases
5741 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
5743 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
5744 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
5745 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
5746 are no longer optimized away.
5747 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
5748 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
5749 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
5750 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
5751 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
5752 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
5753 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
5754 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
5757 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
5758 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
5759 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
5760 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
5761 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
5762 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
5763 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
5765 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
5766 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
5767 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
5768 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
5769 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
5770 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
5771 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
5772 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
5773 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
5774 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
5775 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
5776 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
5777 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
5778 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
5779 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
5780 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
5781 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
5782 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5783 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
5784 that are names of constants or global variables.
5785 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
5786 alien routines with docstrings.
5787 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
5788 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
5790 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
5791 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
5792 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
5793 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5794 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
5795 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5796 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
5797 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
5798 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
5799 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5800 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
5801 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
5802 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
5803 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
5804 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
5805 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
5806 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
5807 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
5808 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
5809 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
5810 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
5811 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
5812 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
5814 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
5815 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
5817 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
5818 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
5819 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
5820 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
5821 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
5822 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
5823 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
5824 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
5825 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
5826 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
5828 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
5829 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
5830 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
5831 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
5832 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
5833 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
5834 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
5835 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
5836 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
5837 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
5838 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
5839 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
5840 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
5841 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
5842 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
5843 is no longer a static symbol.)
5845 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
5846 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
5847 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
5848 bootstrapping under CLISP.
5849 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
5851 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
5852 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
5854 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
5855 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
5856 to David Lichteblau)
5857 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
5858 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
5859 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
5861 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
5862 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5863 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
5864 count as they should.
5865 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
5866 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5867 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
5868 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
5869 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
5870 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
5871 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
5872 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
5873 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
5874 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
5875 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
5876 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
5877 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
5878 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
5879 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
5881 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
5882 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
5883 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
5885 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
5887 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
5888 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
5889 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
5890 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
5891 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
5892 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5893 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
5895 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
5896 to Christophe Rhodes)
5897 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
5898 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
5899 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
5900 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
5901 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
5902 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
5903 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
5905 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
5906 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
5907 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
5908 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
5909 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
5910 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5911 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
5912 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
5913 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
5914 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
5915 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
5916 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
5917 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
5919 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
5920 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
5921 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
5922 INFO database to support symbol macros.
5923 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
5924 (thanks to coreythomas)
5925 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
5926 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
5927 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
5928 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
5929 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
5931 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
5932 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
5933 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
5934 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
5935 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
5936 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
5937 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
5938 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
5939 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
5940 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5941 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
5942 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
5943 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
5945 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
5946 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
5949 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
5950 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
5951 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
5952 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
5953 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
5954 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
5955 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
5956 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
5957 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
5958 systems than the old 4M value was)
5959 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
5960 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
5961 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
5962 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
5963 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
5964 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
5965 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
5967 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
5968 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
5969 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
5970 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
5971 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
5973 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
5974 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
5975 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5976 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
5977 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
5978 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
5979 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
5980 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
5982 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
5983 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5984 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
5985 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5986 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
5987 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
5988 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
5989 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
5991 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5992 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5993 * several changes related to debugging:
5994 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
5995 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
5996 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
5997 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
5998 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
5999 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
6000 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
6003 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
6005 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
6006 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
6007 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
6008 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
6009 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
6010 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
6011 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
6012 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
6014 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
6015 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
6016 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
6017 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6018 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
6019 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
6020 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
6021 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
6022 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
6023 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
6024 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
6025 file format number to change again.
6027 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
6028 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
6029 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
6030 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
6032 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
6033 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
6034 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
6035 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
6036 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
6037 FUNCALL on the result.
6038 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
6039 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
6040 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
6041 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
6042 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
6043 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
6044 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
6045 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
6047 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
6048 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
6049 the old compiler produced.
6050 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
6051 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
6052 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
6053 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
6054 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
6055 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
6056 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
6057 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
6058 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
6059 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
6060 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
6061 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
6062 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
6063 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
6064 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
6065 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
6066 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
6067 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
6068 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
6069 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
6070 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
6071 straightened out in some future version.)
6072 * minor incompatible changes:
6073 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
6074 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
6075 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
6076 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
6077 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
6078 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
6079 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
6080 implementation dependent:
6081 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
6082 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
6083 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
6084 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
6085 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
6086 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
6087 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
6088 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
6090 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
6092 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
6093 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
6094 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
6095 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
6096 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
6097 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
6098 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
6099 are no longer used for output.
6100 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
6101 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
6102 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
6103 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
6104 increasing it even more.)
6105 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
6106 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
6107 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
6109 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
6110 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
6111 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
6112 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
6113 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
6114 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
6115 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
6116 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
6117 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
6118 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
6119 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
6120 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
6121 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
6122 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
6123 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
6124 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
6125 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
6126 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
6127 compilation of code which calls such functions.
6128 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
6129 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
6130 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
6131 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
6132 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
6133 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
6134 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
6135 built into the system.
6136 * many other bug fixes
6137 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
6138 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
6139 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
6140 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
6141 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
6143 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
6144 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
6145 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
6146 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
6147 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
6148 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
6149 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
6150 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
6151 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
6152 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
6153 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
6155 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
6156 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
6157 and several other LOOP problems as well
6158 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
6159 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
6160 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
6161 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
6162 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
6163 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
6164 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
6165 *** a bug in APROPOS
6166 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
6167 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
6168 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
6169 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
6170 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
6171 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
6172 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
6173 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
6174 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
6175 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
6176 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
6177 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
6178 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
6179 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
6180 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
6182 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
6183 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
6184 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
6185 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
6186 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
6187 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
6188 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
6189 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
6190 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
6191 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
6192 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
6193 some of which are apparent above.
6195 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
6196 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
6197 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
6198 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
6199 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
6200 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
6201 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
6202 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
6203 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
6204 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
6205 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
6206 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
6207 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
6208 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
6209 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
6210 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
6211 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
6212 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
6213 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
6214 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
6215 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
6216 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
6217 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
6218 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
6219 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
6220 different return types.
6221 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
6222 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
6223 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
6224 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
6225 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
6226 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
6227 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
6228 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
6229 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
6230 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
6232 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
6233 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
6234 does the right thing.
6235 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
6236 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
6237 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
6238 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
6239 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
6240 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
6241 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
6242 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
6243 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
6244 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
6245 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
6246 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
6247 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
6248 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
6249 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
6250 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
6251 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
6252 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
6253 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
6254 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
6255 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
6256 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
6257 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
6258 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
6259 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
6260 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
6261 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
6262 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
6263 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
6264 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
6265 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
6266 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
6267 since historically most system changes which required version
6268 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
6269 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
6272 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
6273 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
6274 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
6275 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
6276 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
6277 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
6278 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
6279 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
6280 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
6281 half a dozen others elsewhere
6282 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
6283 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
6284 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
6285 as flaky as they were.
6286 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
6287 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
6288 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
6289 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
6290 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
6291 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
6292 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
6293 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
6295 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
6296 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
6297 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
6298 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
6299 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
6300 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
6301 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
6302 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
6303 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
6304 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
6305 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
6306 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
6307 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
6308 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
6309 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
6310 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
6311 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
6312 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
6313 more obscure bugs as well
6314 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
6315 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
6316 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
6317 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
6318 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
6319 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
6320 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
6321 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
6322 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
6323 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
6324 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
6326 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
6327 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
6329 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
6331 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
6332 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
6333 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
6334 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
6335 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
6336 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
6337 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
6338 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
6339 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
6340 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
6341 are local in this sense.)
6342 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
6343 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
6344 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
6345 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
6346 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
6347 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
6348 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
6349 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
6350 system's STREAM objects.
6351 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
6352 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6353 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
6354 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6355 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
6356 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
6357 environment from the original process instead of starting the
6358 new process in an empty environment.
6359 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
6360 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
6361 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
6362 for porting convenience.
6363 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
6364 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
6366 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
6368 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
6369 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
6370 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
6371 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
6372 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
6373 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
6374 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
6375 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
6376 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
6377 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
6378 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
6379 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
6380 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
6381 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
6382 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
6383 many fewer weird special cases.
6384 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
6385 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
6386 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6387 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
6388 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
6389 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
6390 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
6391 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
6392 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
6393 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
6394 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
6397 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
6399 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
6400 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
6401 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
6403 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
6404 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
6405 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
6406 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
6407 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
6408 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
6409 should be constructed the same way as before.
6410 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
6411 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
6412 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
6413 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
6414 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
6415 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
6416 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
6417 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
6418 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
6419 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
6420 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
6421 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
6422 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
6423 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
6424 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
6425 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
6426 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
6427 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
6428 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
6429 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
6430 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
6431 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
6433 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
6434 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
6435 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
6436 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
6437 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
6438 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
6439 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
6440 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
6442 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
6444 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
6445 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
6446 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
6447 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
6448 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
6450 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
6451 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
6452 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
6453 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
6454 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
6455 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
6456 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
6457 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
6458 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
6459 and Douglas Crosher.
6460 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
6461 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
6462 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
6464 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
6465 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
6466 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
6467 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
6468 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
6469 undefined function error.
6470 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
6471 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
6472 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
6473 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
6474 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
6475 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
6476 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
6477 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
6478 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
6479 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
6480 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
6481 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
6482 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
6484 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
6486 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
6487 CVS repository on my home machine).
6488 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
6489 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
6490 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
6491 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
6492 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
6493 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
6494 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
6495 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
6496 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
6497 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
6498 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
6499 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
6500 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
6501 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
6502 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
6503 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
6504 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
6505 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
6506 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
6507 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
6508 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
6509 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
6511 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
6512 FreeBSD have been added.
6513 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
6514 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
6515 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
6516 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
6517 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
6518 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
6520 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
6521 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
6522 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
6523 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
6524 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
6525 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
6526 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
6527 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
6529 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
6530 away by constant folding
6531 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
6532 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
6533 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
6534 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
6535 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
6536 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
6537 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
6538 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
6539 diff-related operations.
6540 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
6541 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
6543 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
6545 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
6546 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
6547 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
6548 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
6549 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
6550 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
6551 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
6552 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
6553 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
6554 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
6555 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
6556 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
6557 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
6558 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
6559 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
6560 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
6561 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
6562 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
6563 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
6564 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
6565 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
6566 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
6567 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
6568 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
6569 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
6570 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
6571 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
6572 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
6573 instead of (VALUES T T).
6574 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
6575 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
6576 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
6577 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
6578 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
6579 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
6580 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
6581 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
6582 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
6583 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
6584 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
6585 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
6586 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
6587 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
6588 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
6589 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
6590 type will be interpreted at runtime.
6591 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
6592 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
6593 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
6594 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
6595 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
6596 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
6597 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
6598 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
6599 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
6600 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
6601 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
6602 fasl files for cold load.
6603 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
6604 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
6605 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
6606 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
6607 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
6608 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
6609 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
6610 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
6611 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
6612 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
6613 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
6615 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
6616 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
6617 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
6618 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
6619 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
6620 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
6621 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
6622 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
6623 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
6624 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
6625 renamed some files to increase consistency.
6626 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
6627 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
6628 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
6629 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
6630 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
6631 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
6633 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
6635 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
6636 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
6637 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
6638 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
6639 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
6640 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
6641 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
6642 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
6643 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
6644 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
6645 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
6646 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
6647 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
6648 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
6649 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
6650 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
6651 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
6652 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
6654 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
6655 as required by ANSI.
6656 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
6657 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
6658 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
6659 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
6661 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
6662 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
6663 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
6664 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
6665 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
6666 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
6667 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
6668 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
6670 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
6671 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
6672 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
6673 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6675 is now basically equivalent to
6676 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6677 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
6679 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
6680 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
6681 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
6682 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
6683 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
6684 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
6685 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
6686 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
6687 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
6688 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
6689 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
6690 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
6691 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
6692 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
6693 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
6694 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
6695 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
6696 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
6697 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
6698 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
6699 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
6700 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
6701 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
6703 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
6705 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
6706 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
6707 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
6708 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
6709 GNUMAKE environment variable.
6710 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
6711 can build without error under CMU CL.
6713 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
6715 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
6716 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
6717 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
6718 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
6719 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
6720 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
6721 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
6722 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
6723 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
6724 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
6725 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
6726 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
6727 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
6728 being initialized before the type system knew the final
6729 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
6730 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
6731 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
6732 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
6733 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
6734 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
6735 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
6736 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
6737 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
6738 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
6740 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
6741 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
6742 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
6743 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
6744 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
6745 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
6746 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
6747 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
6748 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
6749 it were currently supported.
6750 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
6751 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
6752 having to maintain patches.
6753 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
6754 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
6756 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
6758 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
6759 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
6760 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
6761 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
6762 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
6763 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
6764 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
6765 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
6766 * various new style warnings:
6767 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
6768 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
6769 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
6770 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
6771 as specified by ANSI.
6772 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
6773 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
6774 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
6775 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
6776 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
6777 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
6778 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
6779 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
6780 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
6781 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
6782 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
6783 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
6784 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
6785 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
6786 argument types can be determined at compile time.
6787 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
6788 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
6789 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
6790 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
6791 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
6792 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
6793 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
6796 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
6798 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
6799 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
6800 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
6801 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
6802 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
6803 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
6804 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
6805 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
6806 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
6808 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
6809 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
6810 the report form was printed.)
6811 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
6812 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
6813 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
6814 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
6815 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
6816 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
6817 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
6818 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
6819 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
6820 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
6821 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
6822 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
6823 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
6824 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
6825 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
6826 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
6827 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
6828 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
6829 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
6830 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
6831 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
6832 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
6833 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
6834 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
6835 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
6836 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
6837 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
6838 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
6839 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
6840 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
6841 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
6842 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
6843 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
6844 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
6845 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
6846 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
6847 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
6848 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
6849 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
6850 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
6851 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
6852 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
6853 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
6854 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
6855 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
6856 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
6857 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
6858 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
6859 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
6860 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
6861 know more about target types.
6862 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
6863 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
6864 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
6865 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
6866 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
6867 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
6869 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
6870 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
6871 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
6872 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
6873 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
6874 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
6875 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
6876 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
6877 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
6878 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
6879 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
6880 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
6881 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
6883 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
6886 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
6888 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
6889 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
6890 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
6891 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
6892 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
6893 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
6894 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
6895 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
6896 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
6897 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
6898 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
6899 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
6900 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
6901 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
6902 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
6903 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
6904 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
6905 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
6906 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
6907 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
6908 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
6909 invisible at the user level.)
6910 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
6911 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
6912 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
6914 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
6916 * tidied up "make.sh" script
6917 * tidied up system directory structure
6918 * better "clean.sh" behavior
6919 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
6920 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
6921 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
6922 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
6923 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
6924 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
6925 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
6926 * command line argument processing
6927 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
6928 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
6929 terminating SBCL on EOF
6930 * non-verbose GC by default
6931 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
6932 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
6933 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
6935 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
6936 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
6937 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
6938 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
6939 transformed along with everything else.
6940 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
6941 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
6942 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
6943 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
6944 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
6945 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
6946 debugging and testing purposes
6947 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
6948 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
6949 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
6950 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
6951 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
6952 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
6953 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
6955 * regularized formatting of source files
6956 * added an install.sh script
6957 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
6958 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
6959 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
6960 builds nicely on my old laptop.
6961 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
6962 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
6963 was not implemented)
6964 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
6965 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
6966 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
6967 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
6968 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
6970 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
6971 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
6972 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
6973 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
6974 COMPILE-FILE command)
6975 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
6976 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
6977 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
6978 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
6979 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
6980 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
6981 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
6982 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
6983 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
6984 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
6985 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
6986 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
6987 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
6988 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
6989 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
6991 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
6992 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
6993 known to be able to handle the current sources
6994 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
6995 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
6996 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
6997 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
6998 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
6999 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
7000 * removed host-oops.lisp
7001 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
7002 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
7003 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
7004 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
7005 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
7006 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by