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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.1.10
3 * enhancement: support building the manual under texinfo version 5.
6 changes in sbcl-1.1.10 relative to sbcl-1.1.9:
7 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 3.0.2.
8 * optimization: stack frames are packed more efficiently on x86oids, which
9 ought to reduce the frequency of Methuselahn conservative references (it
10 certainly helps with gc.impure.lisp / BUG-936304 on x86).
11 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, integer negation forms like (- x) are now
12 recognized in modular arithmetic contexts, and compile to native negate,
13 rather than going through bignums only to keep the low bits.
14 * bug fix: Compiling potential modularic arithmetic forms does not cause type
15 errors when some integer types lack lower or upper bounds. (lp#1199127)
16 * bug fix: Non-trivial modular arithmetic forms are always cut to the right
17 bitwidth before being used in a non-modular context. (lp#1199428)
18 * bug fix: Multiple catch/unwind blocks in a single function are now
19 allocated in the right stack order on win32. (lp#1072739)
21 changes in sbcl-1.1.9 relative to sbcl-1.1.8:
22 * new feature: the contrib SB-GMP links with libgmp at runtime to speed
23 up arithmetic on bignums and ratios. (contributed by Stephan Frank)
24 * enhancement: disassemble now annotates some previously missing static
25 functions, like LENGTH.
26 * enhancement: clean.sh now also cleans doc/internals.
27 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-SYMBOL-WITH-PREFIX can be used within ~// to
28 print a symbol with a package prefix.
29 * enhancement: The debugger and backtracing are more robust against buggy
31 * optimization: calls to static functions on x86-64 use less instructions.
32 * optimization: compute encode-universal-time at compile time when possible.
33 * optimization: when referencing internal functions as #'x, don't go through
34 an indirect fdefn structure.
35 * optimization: SLEEP doesn't cons on non-immediate floats and on ratios.
36 * optimization: (mod fixnum) type-checks are performed using one unsigned
37 comparison, instead of two.
38 * optimization: enable more modular arithmetic transforms in the presence of
40 * optimization: bitwise OR forms can now trigger modular arithmetic as well,
41 when the result is known to be negative.
42 * optimization: recognize more cases of useless LOGAND/LOGIOR with constants.
43 * optimization: comparisons between rationals and constant floats or between
44 integers and constant ratios are now converted to rationals/integers at
46 * optimization: Smaller and faster DOUBLE-FLOAT-LOW-BITS on x86-64.
47 * bug fix: problems with NCONC type derivation (reported by Jerry James).
48 * bug fix: EXPT type derivation no longer constructs bogus floating-point
49 types. (reported by Vsevolod Dyomkin)
50 * bug fix: sb-bsd-sockets has correct declaration of the canonname field of
51 addrinfo. (lp#1187041, patch by Jerry James)
52 * bug fix: uninitialized type-error conditions can now be printed.
54 * bug fix: tests for sb-bsd-sockets no longer use a predefined port for
55 listening, allowing several tests to run in parallel.
56 * bug fix: during disassembly to *COMPILER-TRACE-OUTPUT* instruction
57 prefixes as used on x86 and x86-64 no longer sometimes print incorrectly.
59 * bug fix: Specialised SIMD-PACK types can be negated.
60 * bug fix: Modular arithmetic is more robust. (incidentally fixes another bug
61 reported by Eric Marsden)
62 * bug fix: FP return values from foreign calls are always rounded to single
63 or double float precision on x87.
64 * bug fix: Known-safe vector access on x86oids should not fail spuriously
65 when the index is of the form (+ x constant-positive-integer).
66 * bug fix: Remove GPL-licensed files from source distribution. (lp#1185668)
67 * bug fix: backtrace printer no longer tries to create very large lists when
68 the arg-count register is clobberred by other code. (lp#1192929)
69 * bug fix: x86 should never signal an FP exception while boxing an FP value,
70 a situation that lands us into ldb.
72 changes in sbcl-1.1.8 relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
73 * notice: The implementation of MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of
74 ROOM, plus a few SB-INTROSPECT functions) has been completely
75 rewritten; it may now exhibit different bugs than before.
76 * new feature: minimal runtime/compiler intrastructure support for SSE
77 SIMD values, as SB-EXT:SIMD-PACK. Enabled on x86-64 via the build-time
78 feature :sb-simd-pack. This should enable intrinsics extensions as
79 libraries, without patching SBCL itself. Thanks to Alexander Gavrilov
80 for maintaining a branch for so long.
81 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
82 the working directory of the spawned process.
83 (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
84 * enhancement: boxed vectors (vectors of T or of FIXNUM) can now be
85 stack-allocated on PPC.
86 * enhancement: "fixed objects" can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
87 * enhancement: WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS no longer conses on PPC/GENCGC.
88 * enhancement: (sb-introspect:find-definition-sources-by-name x :vop) now
89 also returns VOPs which do not translate any functions, and finds
90 defoptimizer types ir2convert and stack-allocate-result.
91 * enhancement: better type derivation for APPEND, NCONC, LIST.
93 * enhancement: MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of ROOM) now walks the
94 heap in a manner similar to the GC rather than its previous ad-hoc
95 scheme, and is therefore no less and possibly more accurate.
96 * fixes and enhancements related to Unicode:
97 ** the character database information has been updated to Unicode 6.2;
98 ** support for canonical and compatibility decomposition of characters has
99 been added, along with support for primary composition;
100 ** support for Unicode normalization forms of strings (NFC, NFKC, NFD and
101 NFKD) has been included;
102 ** querying the character database for code points not defined by Unicode
103 gives less wrong answers (lp#1178038, reported by Ken Harris)
104 * enhancement: print intermediate evaluation results for some ASSERTed
105 expressions. (lp#789497) (patch by Alexandra Barchunova)
106 * enhancement: x86-64 disassemblies are annotated with unboxed constant
107 values when there are references to (RIP-relative) unboxed constants.
108 * bug fix: type derivation for LOG{AND,IOR,XOR} scales linearly instead
109 of quadratically with the size of the input in the worst case.
111 * bug fix: handle errors when initializing *default-pathname-defaults*,
112 sb-ext:*runtime-pathname*, sb-ext:*posix-argv* on startup, like character
113 decoding errors, or directories being deleted.
114 * bug fix: Loading a core with a discontiguous dynamic space now correctly
115 computes the amount of dynamic space used.
116 * bug fix: disassembler missing ",8" on SHLD
117 * bug fix: backtracing through INTERNAL-ERROR signal handlers on systems
118 that provide an "invalid" stack frame link for the signal handler
119 itself now use the saved-fp-and-pc mechanism to pick up from the stack
120 frame in the interrupt (signal) context. This is known to affect
121 threaded FreeBSD/x86-64.
122 * bug fix: some LOOP statements couldn't be compiled.
124 * bug fix: sb-sequence:dosequence works on literal vectors.
125 * bug fix: errors in generic arithmetic show the assembly routine's
126 caller on x86 and x86-64. (lp#800343)
127 * bug fix: Compile-time type errors should never result in COMPILE-FILE
129 * bug fix: Known bad local calls do not cause strange failures when
130 emitting or dumping code. (lp#504121)
131 * bug fix: Multiply-inlined structure constructor don't cause IR2-time
132 codegen errors: type checks are inserted as necessary. (lp#1177703)
133 * bug fix: Unsigned modular arithmetic is correctly converted into signed
134 modular arithemtic (mostly to exploit fixnum-width VOPs). (lp#1026634)
135 * bug fix: a combination of inlined local function with &optional and
136 recursion no longer causes undescriptive compiler errors. (lp#1180992)
137 * bug fix: sub-word BOOLEAN alien types now disregard higher order bits
138 when testing for non-zero-ness.
139 * bug fix: (CONCATENATE 'null ...) no longer fails for generic sequences.
141 * bug fix: Type mismatch for the value of conditional expressions are
142 correctly reported when detected at compile-time, instead of complaining
143 about a constant NIL (similar for non-EQ-comparable catch tags).
144 * bug fix: Referring to INLINE global functions as values should not result
145 in a compilation failure. (lp#1035721)
146 * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
147 * optimization: faster and smaller INTEGER-LENGTH on fixnums on x86-64.
148 * optimization: On x86-64, the number of multi-byte NOP instructions used
149 for code alignment is now always minimal.
150 * optimization: On 64-bit targets, the compiler generates much faster
151 code for type checks for types known at compile time that are smaller
152 than (SIGNED-BYTE 64) or (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) and larger than FIXNUM, and
153 their COMPLEX variants.
154 * optimization: On x86 targets, more uses of ALIEN-FUNCALL during cross
155 compilation now inline the INVOKE-WITH-SAVED-FP-AND-PC dance.
156 * optimization: ROOM no longer conses so egregiously on non-x86oid
158 * optimization: associative bitwise operations reassociate patterns like
159 (f (f x k1) k2) to expose (f x (f k1 k2)). Same for + and * of
161 * optimization: quasiquote expressions now perform more constant folding,
162 instead of consing equal lists at runtime. (lp#1026439)
163 * optimization: local call analysis of inlined higher-order function
164 should converge more quickly, resulting in better code for complex
166 * optimization: On x86-64, medium (word-sized but wider than 32 bits)
167 integer constants are handled more cleverly, especially when they
168 can be represented as sign-extended (signed-byte 32). (Based on a
169 patch by Douglas Katzman)
170 * optimization: IF/IF conversion should reliably result in sane code
171 when (some of) the results of the inner IF are always false or
173 * optimization: On x86oids, variable right shifts of machine words are
174 compiled into straight SAR/SHR, instead of going through the generic
177 changes in sbcl-1.1.7 relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
178 * enhancement: TRACE :PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued forms.
180 * bug fix: :allocation slot option works for condition slots
182 * bug fix: redefining conditions does not lead to multiple evaluations of
183 hairy slot initfunctions anymore (lp#1164969)
184 * bug fix: CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS now works for condition classes
186 * bug fix: function constants now work as initforms and default initarg
187 values of conditions (lp#539517)
188 * bug fix: svref/(setf svref) on symbol macros don't crash the compiler
189 anymore. (Minimal test case provided by James M. Lawrence on sbcl-devel)
190 * bug fix: no more bogus ## references when pretty printing backquoted
191 forms with non-trivial structure sharing. (lp#1161218)
192 * bug fix: Don't signal an error on (setf (documentation nil 'function)
193 "doc"). Signal a style-warning instead when trying to set documentation
194 of NIL for all other documentation types. (Reported by Zach
195 Beane; regression since 2e52fa05.)
196 * bug fix: modular arithmetic involving large constants and conditionals
197 should no longer result in spurious dead code elimination. (Reported by
199 * bug fix: our mach exception handler can seemingly called very early in
200 the program execution process on OS X 10.8.0. Try and handle that case
201 robustly, without potentially leaking mach ports too much.
202 * optimization: LOGBITP and LOGTEST optimizations from x86 ported to x86_64.
204 changes in sbcl-1.1.6 relative to sbcl-1.1.5:
205 * enhancement: the continuable error when defknown-ing over extant
206 fndb entries can be ignored by passing :overwrite-fndb-silently t
207 as a keyword argument to sb-c:defknown (after attributes). Useful
208 to allow defknown to be re-loaded. Use with :allow-other-keys t
209 for backward compatibility.
210 * optimization: compiler is much faster in compiling SVREF and (SETF SVREF)
212 * bug fix: Prevent a make-array transform from modifying source forms
213 causing problems for inlined code. Thanks to Bart Botta.
214 (regression since 1.0.42.11-bis)
215 * bug fix: clear-output calls the correct gray stream routine,
216 sb-gray:stream-clear-output. (lp#1153257)
217 * bug fix: an error is signalled for an invalid format modifier: ~<~@>.
219 * bug fix: Better error messages for package operations (lp#1154776)
220 * bug fix: delete-package on a nonexistent package should signal a cerror.
221 (regression since 1.0.37.44).
222 * bug fix: accessing &MORE (stack allocated &REST) arguments checks bounds.
223 (lp#1154946, lp#1072112)
224 * bug fix: compiling make-array no longer signals an error when the
225 element-type is an uknown type, a warning is issued instead.
226 Thanks to James Kalenius (lp#1156095)
227 * bug fix: SEARCH on generic (non-VECTOR non-LIST) sequence types no longer
228 produces wrong results for some inputs. (Thanks to Jan Moringen.)
231 changes in sbcl-1.1.5 relative to sbcl-1.1.4:
232 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING no longer loops
234 * new feature: package local nicknames. See manual for details.
235 * new feature: SB-EXT:MAP-DIRECTORY provides a powerful interface for
236 directory traversal: it is the backend used by SBCL for CL:DIRECTORY.
237 * enhancement: easier to use restarts for resolving name-conflicts
238 resulting from IMPORT, EXPORT, or USE-PACKAGE.
239 * enhancement: variant DEFPACKAGE forms now signal a full error with
240 restarts provided for resolving the situation. (lp#891351)
241 * enhancement: by setting SB-EXT:*ON-PACKAGE-VARIANCE* appropriately variant
242 DEFPACKAGE forms can now signal a full error with restarts provided for
243 resolving the situation. See manual for details. (lp#891351)
244 * enhancement: make-random-state now uses CryptGenRandom as a seed on Windows.
245 (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) (lp#1102748)
246 * enhancement: backtrace improvements
247 ** secondary CLOS dispatch functions have better debug names (lp#503081)
248 ** easier to read method names in backtraces. See
249 SB-DEBUG:*METHOD-FRAME-STYLE*.
250 ** SB-DEBUG:PRINT-BACKTRACE and SB-DEBUG:LIST-BACKTRACE are available as
251 forwards-compatible replacements for SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE and
252 SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST.
253 ** SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS** has been deprecated, as the same
254 information is available in less intrusive form as frame annotations.
255 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides MAP-ANON.
256 * enhancement: test-suite results are colorized, failures in red, unexpected
257 success in green. Works on Windows and on terminals with ANSI escape code
258 support. Can be disabled with --no-color.
259 * optimization: SB-CONCURRENCY:QUEUE implementation is more efficient.
260 (thanks to James M. Lawrence)
261 * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings from RESTART-CASE
262 macroexpansion (lp#1113859)
263 * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings when loading
264 sb-bsd-sockets.asd (lp#1114681)
265 * bug fix: deleting a package removes it from implementation-package
266 lists of other packages.
267 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING is now usable in the Slime REPL on Darwin.
268 This does not fix the occasional "interrupt already pending" issue, though.
269 * bug fix: (setf (documentation 'x 'function)) and
270 (setf (documentation #'x t)) set documentation in different places.
271 (regression since 1.0.43.63)
272 * bug fix: build on newer glibc. (lp#1095036)
274 changes in sbcl-1.1.4 relative to sbcl-1.1.3:
275 * optimization: LOOP expressions using "of-type character" have slightly
276 more efficient expansions.
277 * bug fix: very long (or infinite) constant lists in DOLIST do not result
278 in very long compile times or heap exhaustion anymore. (lp#1095488)
279 * bug fix: `#3(1) is read as #(1 1 1), not as #(1). (lp#1095918)
280 * bug fix: adjust-array ignored :initial-element for simple-vectors.
282 * bug fix: optimizations to MAKE-INSTANCE with literal list initargs no
283 longer cause infinite loops (on circular data) or violate eqlity
284 constraints. (lp#1099708)
285 * bug fix: FIRST was not being open coded. (regression from 1.1.0)
287 changes in sbcl-1.1.3 relative to sbcl-1.1.2:
288 * enhancement: warnings about bad locale settings, LANG, LC_CTYPE, etc.
290 * enhancement: support for C-c to interrupt the foreground thread
291 on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
292 * enhancement: STDCALL alien callbacks. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
293 * enhancement: Safepoint builds on POSIX platforms can now optionally be
294 built without pseudo-atomic sequences and their run-time overhead.
295 * enhancement: Threads created outside of Lisp can enter Lisp through
296 alien callbacks and appear as Lisp threads for the duration of that
297 function invocation. On safepoint builds only.
298 * enhancement: Miscellaneous improvements to namestrings and underlying
299 calls to OS functions for file system access on Windows. (Thanks to
301 * enhancement: The MSI installer support for Windows now uses Windows
302 Installer XML at least version 3.5 and includes various usability
303 improvements. (Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.)
304 * enhancement: The sb-bsd-sockets contrib now supports non-blocking-mode
305 on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
306 * enhancement: The Windows backend now supports the x86-64 platform.
307 (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
308 * bug fix: fasls are now once again directly executable (on platforms
309 supporting shebang lines, with a suitably-installed sbcl).
310 * bug fix: make.sh --help no longer runs clean.sh. (lp#937001)
311 * bug fix: Fix CAS access to slots of direct instances of structure classes
312 in the presence of subclasses sharing the same conc-name.
313 * bug fix: Logical pathname namestrings on Windows have been changed to
314 be lower-case, to minimize differences between POSIX and Windows.
316 changes in sbcl-1.1.2 relative to sbcl-1.1.1:
317 * notice: System requirements for SBCL on Microsoft Windows: Windows NT 5.1
318 or newer (Windows XP, Server 2003) is required. Support for Windows 2000
319 (NT 5.0) is no longer being maintained.
320 * notice: Starting with this version, SBCL on Windows no longer supports
321 building with disabled thread support.
322 * enhancement: frlocks have been added to SB-CONCURRENCY contrib module.
323 * enhancement: New feature sb-dynamic-core allows the runtime to be
324 rebuilt or relocated without requiring changes to the core file on
325 all linkage table platforms. Required on Windows. (Thanks to Anton
327 * enhancement: Console I/O streams use UCS-2. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
328 * enhancement: I/O on Windows unnamed pipes is interruptible
329 asynchronously using interrupt-thread, timers when running on Windows NT
330 version 6.1 or newer (Windows 7, Server 2008 R2). (Thanks to Anton
332 * enhancement: Support for the experimental safepoint-based stop-the-world
333 protocol on the PowerPC platform.
334 * bug fix: Non-blocking reads from the Windows console were not necessarily
335 non-blocking. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko. (lp#308923)
336 * bug fix: stability of threads on Windows has been improved upon through
337 an updated stop-the-world protocol (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
339 changes in sbcl-1.1.1 relative to sbcl-1.1.0:
340 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT no longer grabs the world-lock.
341 (COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE still do.)
342 * optimization: the SPARC backend now supports the precise generational
343 (GENCGC) garbage collection. Enabled by default on Solaris/SPARC and
344 Linux/SPARC. Thanks to Raymond Toy (via CMUCL).
345 * enhancement: add experimental support for the SB-THREAD feature and the
346 timer facility on Windows. Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.
347 Threads are enabled by default, and this version of SBCL is considered
348 to be the last and final release to officially support building with
350 * optimization: The compiler no longer rotates loops in some cases where
351 this transformation actually lead to worse code being generated.
352 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:MACROEXPAND-ALL correctly handles shadowing of
353 symbol-macros by lexical bindings.
354 * bug fix: stack allocation was prevented by high DEBUG declaration in
356 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GC-LOGFILE signaled an error when no logfile was set.
357 (thanks to SANO Masatoshi)
358 * bug fix: PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING performed non-native parsing when
359 :JUNK-ALLOWED was true.
360 * bug fix: type derivation inferred overly conservative types for
361 unions of array types. (lp#1050768)
363 changes in sbcl-1.1.0 relative to sbcl-1.0.58:
364 * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling
365 source annotation of DISASSEMBLE output. Defaults to T.
366 * enhancement: TIMEOUT arguments added to WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK, and
367 WAIT-P argument added to WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK.
368 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-PUSH and SB-EXT:ATOMIC-POP allow atomic operations
370 * enhancement: Optional features (not enabled by default) allow the
371 use of signals for inter-thread synchronization to be reduced on certain
372 supported platforms (currently Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD on x86 and
373 x86-64). Set (and :sb-thread :sb-safepoint :sb-thruption :sb-wtimer)
374 to test these experimental features. Known remaining bugs include minor
375 thread safety issues, less timely freeing of memory by GC, and certain
376 (not yet optimally low) runtime overhead. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.
377 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT of lists are faster and use fewer
378 comparisons, particularly on almost-sorted inputs.
379 * bug fix: Reading floats with large exponents no longer takes too much time
380 before reporting that the exponent is too large.
381 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-RECEIVE with a UDP socket now works
382 correctly when the received datagram is larger than the provided buffer.
383 (lp#1023438, thanks to Robert Uhl)
384 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION returned a bogus read-form when given
385 a SYMBOL-VALUE form with a constant symbol argument.
386 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION signaled an error when a macro expanding
387 into a DEFCAS defined place was used as the place.
388 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION signaled a type-error when non-bits where looked
389 for from bit-vectors.
390 * bug fix: a race condition around thread creation could (in SBCL 1.0.57)
391 lead to internal errors or crashes (lp#1058799).
392 * documentation: a section on random number generation has been added to the
395 changes in sbcl-1.0.58 relative to sbcl-1.0.57:
396 * enhancement: implicit generic function warnings now specify the package
397 in which the new generic function is being created.
398 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-UPDATE makes it easy to perform non-destructive
399 updates of CAS-able places (similar to Clojure's swap!).
400 * enhancement: run-program no longer decodes and re-encodes environment when
401 :environment argument is not provided. (lp#985904)
402 * enhancement: errors during compiler-macro expansion no longer cause
403 runtime errors, only a compile-time warning, otherwise behaving as if
404 the compiler macro had declined to expand.
405 * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with
406 multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP.
407 * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is
408 of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (lp#1001043,
409 thanks to James M. Lawrence)
410 * optimization: the compiler no longer heap-conses to check exits in cases
411 where the exit function is dynamic extent, or when it can prove the exit
412 function cannot escape. (lp#1002534)
413 * optimization: SB-SEQUENCE:DOSEQUENCE is faster on vectors of unknown
414 element type, and vectors that aren't SIMPLE-ARRAYs.
415 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT are more efficient in execution
416 speed (around 1/3 the time in some cases), and a little better in terms of
417 comparison calls. (Thanks to Takeru Ohta)
418 * bug fix: On SPARC, a limitation on the number of code constants emittable
419 by the compiler has been lifted, allowing certain long functions to
420 compiled and assembled which had previously been unsupported; fixes
421 cl-bench on this ISA (lp#1008996).
422 * bug fix: potential for infinite recursion during compilation of CLOS slot
423 typechecks when dependency graph had loops. (lp#1001799)
424 * bug fix: error forms reported with some program-errors were not escaped
426 * bug fix: functions from EVAL are now on more equal footing with functions
427 from COMPILE. (lp#1000783, lp#851170, lp#922408)
428 * bug fix: ENSURE-GENERIC-METHOD-COMBINATION accepts method combination
429 objects as its :METHOD-COMBINATION argument, not just lists designating
430 method combinations. (lp#936513)
431 * bug fix: run-program no longer unconditionally uses /tmp/ for temporary
433 * bug fix: restore build on solaris/sparc. (lp#1008506)
434 * bug fix: an issue with LDB in the PowerPC backend has been resolved;
435 this fixes an issue found with cl-postgres (thanks to Tomas Hlavaty).
436 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-lists specifying non-keyword symbols
437 as keyword arguments no longer accidentally match unevaluated symbols
439 * bug fix: FORMAT used to loop infinitely in some cases when a COLINC
440 parameter was zero, now it signals an error. (lp#905817, fixed since
442 * bug fix: run-program with :pty t no longer makes the pty as the process's
444 * bug fix: spawning threads on OS X 10.8 no longer crashes the process
447 changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
448 * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes:
449 ** bug fix: the range and distribution of random integers could be
450 catastrophically wrong when the compiler derived the type of its
451 argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
452 ** bug fix: the distribution of random integers is now completely
453 uniform even when the specified limit is not a power of two.
454 (Previously some values could be about 0.1 % more probable than
455 others in the worst case.) (lp#309467)
456 ** RANDOM on large integer arguments is generally faster and conses
457 less than before; this is visible for fixnums above a length of
458 about 24 bits, but extremely so for bignums: the old implementation
459 used time and space quadratical in the size of the argument there,
460 the new one is linear.
461 * enhancement: redesigned protocol for quitting SBCL. SB-EXT:EXIT is the new
462 main entry point, SB-EXT:QUIT is deprecated.
463 * enhancement: additions to the SB-THREAD API: RETURN-FROM-THREAD,
464 ABORT-THREAD, MAIN-THREAD-P, and MAIN-THREAD.
465 * enhancement: FASL loading no longer grabs the world-lock.
466 * enhancement: GENCGC reclaims space more aggressively when objects being
467 allocated are a large fraction of the total available heap space.
469 * enhancement: backtraces show the correct number of arguments for frames
470 called with too many arguments.
471 * enhancement: support for abort(3), exit(3), and _exit(2) has been added to
473 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.21.
474 * optimization: fewer uses of full calls to signed modular functions.
476 * optimization: typechecking alien values is typically 5 x faster.
477 * optimization: FDEFINITION, SYMBOL-FUNCTION, MACRO-FUNCTION, and FBOUNDP
479 * bug fix: file compilation performance issues when dumping subtypes
480 of CHARACTER (lp#994487)
481 * bug fix: fixed disassembly of some SSE instructions on x86-64.
482 * bug fix: SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS signals an error for bogus :CLASS arguments in
483 OPEN. (lp#969352, thanks to Kambiz Darabi)
484 * bug fix: CASE normal-clauses do not allow T and OTHERWISE as keys.
486 * bug fix: (SETF (FIND-CLASS X) NIL) removed proper name of the underlying
487 classoid even if X was not the proper name of the class. (lp#941102)
488 * bug fix: declaration leakage between lexical environments due to careless
489 use of NCONC in MAKE-LEXENV. (lp#924276)
490 * bug fix: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST now works when
491 *default-pathname-defaults* contains NAME or TYPE components.
492 * bug fix: PPRINT couldn't print improper lists with CARs being some symbols
493 from CL package, e.g. (loop . 10).
494 * bug fix: run-program with existent or non-existent files for :output or
495 :input when :if-output-exists or :if-input-does-not-exist are NIL properly
496 returns NIL instead of signalling an obscure error.
497 * bug fix: fix miscompilation of some logand forms with large constant
498 arguments. (lp#974406)
499 * bug fix: account for funcallable-instance objects properly in ROOM.
500 * bug fix: incorrect octets reported for c-string decoding errors.
502 * bug fix: miscompilation of LDB on the PowerPC platform. (thanks to Bruce
504 * bug fix: better input error reporting for COMPILE-FILE. (lp#493380)
505 * bug fix: default size of non-nursery generations has been shrunk on GENCGC,
506 allowing faster release of memory back to the OS. (lp#991293)
507 * bug fix: WITH-DEADLINE (:SECONDS NIL :OVERRIDE T) now drops any
508 existing deadline for the dynamic scope of its body.
509 * bug fix: compiler-internal interval arithmetic needed to be more
510 conservative about open intervals when operated on by monotonic but not
511 strictly-monotonic functions. (lp#975528)
512 * bug fix: copy-tree caused stack exhaustion on long linear lists, and now
513 it's also slightly faster. (lp#998926)
514 * bug fix: better error messages for malformed declarations.
516 * bug fix: define-condition didn't return the name of the defined condition.
518 ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)
520 changes in sbcl-1.0.56 relative to sbcl-1.0.55:
521 * bug fix: fix copy-structure. When copying from stack to heap, garbage
522 could end up in the heap making GC unhappy.
523 (Thanks to James Knight, lp#911027)
525 ** SBCL can now be built using Clang.
526 ** ASDF has been updated 2.20.
527 * bug fix: compiler errors when weakening hairy integer types. (lp#913232)
528 * bug fix: don't complain about a too-hairy lexical environment for inlining
529 when the function has never been requested for inlining. (lp#963530)
531 changes in sbcl-1.0.55 relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
532 * enhancements to building SBCL using make.sh:
533 ** --fancy can be specified to enable all supported feature enhancements.
534 ** --with-<feature> and --without-<feature> can be used to specify
535 which features to build with.
536 ** --arch option can be used to specify the architecture to build for.
537 (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not
538 full-blows cross-compilation.)
539 * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax <pkgname>::<form-in-package>
540 which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the
542 * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than
543 T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown)
544 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a
545 null alien when malloc() fails. (lp#891268)
546 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-UNREADABLY restart for PRINT-NOT-READABLE
547 conditions can be conveniently accessed through function with the same
548 name, analogously to CONTINUE.
549 * enhancement: SB-EXT:*SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* can be used to suppress errors
550 from the printer by type, causing an error marker to be printed instead.
551 (Thanks to Attila Lendvai)
552 * enhancement: BACKTRACE and DESCRIBE now bind *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T, and
553 generally behave better when errors occur during printing.
554 * enhancement: the test runner now takes a --report-skipped-tests argument
555 to report the individual tests skipped as well as the number of skipped
557 * enhancement: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
558 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on x86oids.
559 * enhancement: detected deadlocks no longer cause stderr to be spammed, and
560 deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
561 * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
563 * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
564 :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
565 of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to LuÃs Oliveira, lp#901661)
566 * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other
567 instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64.
568 * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude
569 faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial.)
570 * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
572 * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
573 be stack-allocated. (lp#902351)
574 * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
575 floating point constants used in full calls.
576 * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
577 single floats inline, except on x86 where this limitation is still
579 * optimization: truncation operations on integers with constant divisor
580 arguments 1 and -1 are optimized away.
581 * bug fix: deadlock detection could report the same deadlock twice, for
582 two different threads. Now a single deadlock is reported exactly once.
583 * bug fix: interval-arithmetic division during type derivation did not
584 account for signed zeros.
585 * bug fix: compiler error when typechecking a call to a function with
586 non-constant keyword arguments.
587 * bug fix: misoptimization of TRUNCATE causing erratic behaviour.
588 * bug fix: condition slot accessors no longer cause undefined function
589 style-warnings when used in the :REPORT clause of the DEFINE-CONDITION
590 form that defines them. (lp#896379)
591 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC warns about unsupported declarations, as specified
593 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP tests involving forward-referenced classes no longer
594 bogusly report NIL, T.
595 * bug fix: bogus style-warnings for DEFMETHOD forms that both declared some
596 required arguments ignored and performed assignments to others.
598 * bug fix: *EVALUATOR-MODE* :COMPILE treated (LET () ...) identically
599 to (LOCALLY ...) leading to internally inconsistent toplevel-formness.
600 * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type.
601 * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an
602 unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243)
603 * bug fix: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
604 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on non-x86oids.
605 * bug fix: backtraces are no longer cut off at ("undefined function") when
606 called under certain circumstances (involving a caller-allocated stack
608 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM leaked a file-descriptor per call on non-Windows
609 systems. (regression since 1.0.53)
610 * bug fix: GC deadlocks from dladdr() on certain platforms.
611 * bug fix: broken standard streams no longer automatically cause recursive
612 errors on debugger entry.
613 * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
614 (regression since 1.0.53)
615 * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
616 an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
617 * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
618 no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
619 * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
620 subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
621 * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
622 forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
623 * bug fix: some of the compile-time side-effects of DEFCLASS were not caught
625 * bug fix: Proper handling of --dynamic-space-size option on 32 bit platforms.
627 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
628 * minor incompatible changes:
629 ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file
631 ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the
632 directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve the
633 pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE if
634 you wish to delete the
635 ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using
636 symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning.
637 * thread-related enhancements:
638 (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign.
639 Many thanks to generous donors!)
640 ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still don't
641 consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to enable them by
642 default, but they're in a clearly better shape now.
643 ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms.
644 ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT
646 ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD.
647 ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects.
648 ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE,
649 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
650 ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
651 using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
652 * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes:
653 ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb,
654 and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before.
655 ** on GENCGC targets, the default dynamic space size is now 512Mb for
656 32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only
657 exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The
658 new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems.
659 Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with
660 another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a
661 good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system
663 ** on GENCGC targets, nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of
665 ** on GENCGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ no longer categorically
666 refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
667 ** on 64-bit GENCGC targets, setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works.
669 ** on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does the same
670 validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
671 comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.
672 * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes:
673 ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
674 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
675 systems with getaddrinfo().
676 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
677 safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
678 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.019.
679 * enhancement: special-case TCO prevention for functions which never return
680 extended to untrusted types, keeping one more frame's worth of debug
681 information around in many cases.
682 * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more
683 descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100)
684 * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against
685 overflows. (lp#888410)
686 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child
687 process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987)
688 * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing
689 the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are
690 located. (Thanks to Zach Beane)
691 * enhancement: the compiler is now able to derive tighter bounds for
692 floating point numbers in some cases. (Thanks to Lutz Euler, lp#894498)
693 * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
694 correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
695 * bug fix: (DIRECTORY "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that
696 resolved to directories.
697 * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer
698 result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750)
699 * bug fix: type mismatch on (SETF AREF) and function return values no
700 longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects.
701 * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
702 <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
703 instead of partially calculating only to single-precision. (lp#741564;
704 thanks to Lutz Euler)
705 * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus
706 objects when interrupted by GC on PPC.
708 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
709 * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,
710 the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum =
711 (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.
712 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events.
713 * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit
714 targets is now 63 bits (up from 61).
715 * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location
716 for complext setf-expanders.
717 * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO,
718 GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values
719 of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an
720 error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3).
721 * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64.
722 * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation
723 when built with certain compilers.
724 * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant
725 rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151)
726 * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus
727 code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on
729 * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying
730 to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with
732 * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage
733 on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445)
734 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to
735 delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877)
736 * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length
737 sequences and :KEY NIL.
739 changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51:
740 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017.
741 * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with
743 * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular
744 or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION
745 argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level.
746 * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime
747 hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL
748 processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only
749 enable this for compressed cores.
750 * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses.
751 * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings
752 or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table.
753 * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error.
755 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with
756 AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971)
757 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of
758 multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970)
759 * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list
760 expressions. (lp#770184)
761 * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used
762 as arguments of arithmetic operators.
763 * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a
764 fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller)
765 * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds
766 from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max
768 * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are
769 added or removed works again.
771 changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50:
772 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer
773 participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to
774 MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT.
775 * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals
776 and probe counts on Linux.
777 * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a
778 chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.)
779 * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive
781 * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine
782 (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
783 * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on
784 x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov).
785 * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed
786 to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently
787 implemented for x86 and x86-64.
788 * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented
789 using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.)
790 * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE.
791 * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle
792 instructions. (lp#814688)
793 * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works.
794 (reported by Jan Moringen; lp#815155)
795 * bug fix: a compiler error during typecheck generation, reported by Eric
797 * bug fix: obsolete instance protocol fires when shared slots are added
799 * bug fix: fixed-format floating point printing with scaling factors.
801 * bug fix: using GCC >= 4.6 to build SBCL on x86 no longer breaks
802 backtraces. (lp#818460)
803 * bug fix: better backtraces for interrupted syscall frames on x86.
805 * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one
806 operand is in memory. (lp#814702)
807 * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599)
808 * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived
809 type information associated with the VALUES form.
810 * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE
812 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before
813 first write (lp#561642).
814 * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974)
815 * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to
816 floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler.
818 * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known
819 functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459).
820 * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression
823 changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
824 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
825 the offending handler.
826 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure
828 * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily
829 be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*
830 and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*.
831 * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for
832 the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments.
833 * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when
834 COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED.
835 * enhancement: SB-ALIEN exports alien type specifiers SIZE-T and OFF-T.
836 * enhancement: debugger understands &MORE arguments better.
837 * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been
838 optimized. (lp#555201)
839 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors,
840 when (> SPEED SPACE).
841 * optimization: local call trampolines (x86 and x86-64) are emitted
843 * optimization: implicit value cells for dynamic-extent closed-over bindings
844 on x86 and x86-64 can hold unboxed values as well.
845 * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large
846 functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206)
847 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
848 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
849 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
850 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
851 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
852 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
853 * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT
854 boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots.
855 * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist.
856 (lp#795705, regression)
857 * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames.
858 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings
859 are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237)
860 * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in
861 MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812)
862 * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg.
863 (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously.
865 * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic
866 functions with both optional and key argments.
867 * bug fix: regalloc doesn't barf on unused TNs due to type-directed constant
869 * bug fix: Fixed an off-by-one in MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS that might have caused
872 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
873 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
874 interrupts for its body.
875 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
876 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
877 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
878 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
879 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
880 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
881 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
883 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
885 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
886 type-errors detected at compile-time.
887 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
888 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
889 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
890 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
891 easier to use safely.
892 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
893 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
894 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
895 * enhancement: --script improvements:
896 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
897 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
899 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
900 terminal even if one is available.
901 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
903 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
904 strings to foreign memory.
905 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
906 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
907 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
908 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
909 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
911 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
912 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
914 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
915 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
916 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
917 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
918 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
919 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
920 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
921 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
922 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
924 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
926 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
928 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
929 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
930 years, is now no longer supported.
931 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
932 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
933 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
934 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
935 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
936 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
937 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
938 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
939 functions. (lp#740717)
940 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
941 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
942 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
943 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
944 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
946 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
947 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
948 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
949 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
950 of DEFUN. (lp#675584)
951 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
953 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
955 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
956 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
957 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
959 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
962 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
963 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
964 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
966 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
967 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
968 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
969 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
970 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
971 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
972 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
973 declarations. (lp#726331)
974 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
975 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
976 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
978 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
980 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
981 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
982 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
983 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
984 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
985 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
986 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
987 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
988 are detected. (lp#520607)
989 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
991 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
992 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
993 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
994 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
995 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
996 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
997 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
999 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
1000 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
1001 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
1002 variable. (lp#551227)
1003 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
1005 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
1006 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
1007 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
1008 arguments (lp#710017)
1009 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
1010 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
1012 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
1013 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
1014 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
1015 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
1016 up instance creation in those cases.
1017 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
1018 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
1019 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
1020 pretty-printing was overly slow.
1021 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
1022 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
1023 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
1024 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
1025 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
1027 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
1028 mistake. (lp#667297).
1029 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
1030 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
1031 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
1032 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
1033 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
1034 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
1037 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
1038 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
1039 Refer to documentation for details.
1040 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
1041 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
1042 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
1043 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
1044 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
1045 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
1047 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
1048 argument list. (lp#310173)
1049 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
1050 derived properly (lp#384892)
1051 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
1052 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
1053 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
1054 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
1055 in the DEFMETHOD body.
1056 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
1057 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
1058 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
1059 operators. (lp#309448)
1061 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
1062 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
1063 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
1064 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
1066 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
1067 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
1068 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
1069 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
1070 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
1072 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
1073 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
1074 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
1075 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
1076 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
1077 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
1078 addition member types.
1079 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
1080 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
1081 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
1082 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
1083 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
1085 * improvements to the Windows port:
1086 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
1087 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
1088 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
1089 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
1090 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
1092 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
1093 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
1094 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
1095 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
1097 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
1098 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
1099 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
1100 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
1101 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
1102 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
1103 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
1104 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
1105 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
1106 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
1107 so badly. (lp#654485)
1108 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
1109 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
1110 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
1111 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1112 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
1113 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
1114 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
1115 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
1116 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
1117 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
1118 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
1119 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
1120 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
1121 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
1122 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
1123 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
1124 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1125 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
1127 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
1128 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
1129 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
1130 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
1131 contribs (lp#659105)
1132 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
1133 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1134 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
1135 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
1136 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
1137 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
1138 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
1139 properly. (lp#384801)
1140 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
1141 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
1143 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
1144 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
1145 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
1146 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
1147 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
1149 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
1150 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1151 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
1152 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1154 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
1155 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
1156 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
1157 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
1158 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
1159 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
1160 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
1161 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
1163 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
1165 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
1166 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
1167 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
1169 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
1170 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
1171 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1172 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
1173 thanks to Andrew Golding)
1174 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
1175 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
1177 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
1178 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
1179 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1180 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
1181 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1182 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
1183 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1184 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
1185 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
1186 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
1187 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1188 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
1189 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
1190 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
1192 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
1193 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
1194 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
1195 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1196 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
1197 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1198 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
1199 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
1200 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
1201 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
1202 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
1203 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
1204 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
1205 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
1206 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
1207 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
1208 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
1209 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
1210 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
1212 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
1214 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
1215 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
1217 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
1219 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
1220 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
1221 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
1222 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
1223 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
1224 * optimization: The default implementation of
1225 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
1226 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
1227 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
1228 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
1229 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
1230 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
1231 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1232 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
1233 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
1234 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
1235 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
1237 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
1238 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
1239 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
1240 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
1241 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
1242 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
1244 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
1246 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
1247 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
1248 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
1249 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
1250 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
1251 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
1253 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
1255 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
1256 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
1258 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
1259 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
1261 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
1262 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
1263 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
1264 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
1265 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
1266 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
1267 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
1268 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
1269 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
1270 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
1271 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1272 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
1274 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
1276 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
1277 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
1278 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
1279 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
1280 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
1281 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
1282 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
1283 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
1284 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
1285 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
1287 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
1288 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
1289 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
1291 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
1292 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
1293 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
1295 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
1296 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
1297 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
1299 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
1300 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
1301 generic function call.
1302 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
1303 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
1304 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
1306 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
1308 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
1309 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
1310 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
1311 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
1312 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
1313 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
1314 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
1315 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
1316 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
1317 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
1318 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
1319 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
1320 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
1321 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
1322 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
1324 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
1325 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
1326 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
1327 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
1328 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
1329 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
1330 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
1331 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
1332 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
1333 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
1334 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
1335 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
1336 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
1337 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
1338 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
1339 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
1340 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
1341 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
1342 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
1343 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
1344 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
1345 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
1346 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
1347 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
1348 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
1350 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
1351 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
1352 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
1354 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
1355 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
1357 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
1358 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
1359 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
1360 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
1362 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
1363 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
1364 stack frame thrown from.
1365 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
1366 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
1367 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
1368 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
1370 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
1371 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
1372 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
1373 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
1374 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
1375 for accessing such arrays.
1376 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
1377 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
1378 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
1379 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1380 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
1381 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
1382 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
1383 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
1384 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
1385 functions. (lp#524707)
1386 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1387 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
1388 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
1389 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
1390 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
1391 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
1392 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
1393 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
1394 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
1395 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
1396 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
1397 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
1398 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
1399 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
1401 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
1402 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
1403 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
1404 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
1405 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
1407 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1408 declarations (lp#497321)
1409 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
1410 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
1411 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
1413 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
1414 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
1415 due to it, so that handlers can run.
1416 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
1417 parsing. (lp#309128)
1418 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
1419 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
1420 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
1421 expanded calls (lp#542174)
1422 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
1423 than just at toplevel form.
1425 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
1426 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
1427 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
1428 but work on type specifiers.
1429 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
1430 to name a type specifier.
1431 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
1432 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
1433 second argument of TYPEP".
1434 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
1435 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
1436 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
1437 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
1438 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
1439 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
1440 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
1441 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
1442 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
1443 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
1444 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
1445 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
1446 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
1448 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
1450 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
1451 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
1453 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
1454 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
1455 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
1456 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
1457 before reaching the erring stack frame.
1458 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
1459 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
1460 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
1461 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
1462 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
1463 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
1464 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
1465 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
1467 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
1468 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
1469 is properly inlined when possible.
1470 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
1471 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
1472 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
1473 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
1474 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
1475 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
1476 launchpad bug lp#508485)
1477 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
1478 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
1479 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
1480 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
1481 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
1482 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
1484 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
1485 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
1487 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
1489 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
1490 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
1491 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
1492 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
1493 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
1494 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1495 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
1497 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
1498 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
1499 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
1500 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
1501 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
1502 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
1503 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
1504 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
1505 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
1506 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
1507 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
1508 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
1509 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
1510 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
1512 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
1515 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
1516 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1517 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
1518 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
1519 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
1520 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
1521 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
1522 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
1524 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
1525 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
1526 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
1527 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
1529 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
1530 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
1531 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1532 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1533 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1534 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1536 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
1537 errors for fd-stream external formats.
1538 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
1539 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
1540 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
1541 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
1542 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
1544 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
1545 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
1546 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
1547 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
1549 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
1550 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
1551 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
1552 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
1553 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
1555 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
1556 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
1557 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
1558 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
1559 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
1560 error is near the end of file.
1561 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
1562 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
1563 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
1564 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
1565 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
1566 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
1567 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
1568 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
1569 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
1570 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1571 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
1572 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
1573 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
1574 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
1575 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
1576 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
1577 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
1578 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
1579 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
1580 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
1581 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
1582 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
1583 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
1584 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
1586 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
1587 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
1588 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
1589 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
1590 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
1591 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
1592 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
1593 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
1594 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
1596 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
1597 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
1598 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
1599 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
1601 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
1602 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
1603 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
1605 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
1607 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
1608 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
1610 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
1611 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
1612 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
1613 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
1614 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
1615 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
1616 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
1617 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
1618 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
1619 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
1620 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1621 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
1622 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
1624 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
1625 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
1626 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
1627 open coded is now considered a bug.
1628 * improvements related to Unicode:
1629 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1630 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1631 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1633 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
1634 syllable characters.
1635 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
1636 (as well as for stream operations).
1637 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
1638 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
1640 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
1641 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
1643 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
1645 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
1646 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
1647 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
1648 constant two has been optimized.
1649 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
1650 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1651 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
1652 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
1653 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
1654 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
1655 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
1656 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
1657 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
1658 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
1659 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
1660 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
1661 but assumed or declared function as well.
1662 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
1663 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1664 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
1665 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
1667 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
1668 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
1669 well as user defined declaration names.
1670 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
1671 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
1673 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
1674 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1675 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
1676 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
1677 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
1679 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
1681 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
1683 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
1684 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1685 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
1686 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1687 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
1688 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
1689 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
1690 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
1691 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
1693 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
1694 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1695 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
1696 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
1697 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
1698 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
1700 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
1701 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
1702 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
1703 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
1704 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
1705 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
1706 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1707 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
1709 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
1710 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
1711 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
1712 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
1713 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
1714 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
1715 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1716 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
1717 values in other threads.
1718 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
1719 about object allocation.
1720 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
1721 with a specialised code sequence.
1722 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
1723 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
1724 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
1725 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
1726 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
1727 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
1728 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
1729 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
1730 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
1731 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
1733 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
1735 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
1736 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
1737 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
1738 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
1739 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
1740 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
1741 unboxed format on x86[-64].
1742 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
1743 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
1744 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
1745 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
1746 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
1748 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
1749 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
1750 contains more pertinent information.
1751 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
1752 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
1753 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
1754 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
1755 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
1756 types. (reported by "abhi")
1757 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
1758 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
1759 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1760 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
1761 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
1762 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
1763 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
1764 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
1765 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
1766 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
1767 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1768 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
1769 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1770 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
1771 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
1772 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
1773 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
1774 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
1776 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
1777 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
1778 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
1779 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
1780 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1781 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
1782 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1784 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
1785 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
1786 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
1787 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
1788 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
1789 (no subscription required.)
1790 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
1791 types are weakened less aggressively.
1792 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
1793 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
1794 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
1795 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
1796 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
1797 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
1798 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
1799 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
1801 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
1802 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
1803 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
1804 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
1806 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
1807 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
1808 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
1810 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
1811 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
1812 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
1814 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
1815 is known are 50% faster.
1816 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
1817 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
1819 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
1820 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
1821 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
1822 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
1823 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
1825 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
1826 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
1827 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
1828 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
1829 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
1830 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
1832 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
1833 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
1834 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
1835 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
1836 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
1837 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1838 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
1839 to Tobias Rittweiler)
1840 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
1841 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
1842 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
1843 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
1844 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
1845 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1846 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
1847 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
1848 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
1849 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
1850 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
1852 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
1853 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
1854 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
1855 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
1857 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
1858 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
1859 result register (bug 316325).
1860 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
1861 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
1862 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
1863 generate incorrect code.
1864 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
1865 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
1866 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
1867 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
1869 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
1870 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
1871 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
1872 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
1873 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
1874 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
1875 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
1876 from :INITFORM, if any.
1878 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
1879 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
1880 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
1881 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
1882 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
1884 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
1885 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
1886 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
1887 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
1888 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
1889 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1890 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
1891 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
1892 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1893 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
1895 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
1896 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1897 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
1898 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
1899 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
1900 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
1901 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1902 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
1903 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
1904 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
1905 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
1906 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
1907 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
1908 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1909 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
1910 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
1911 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
1913 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
1914 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1915 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
1916 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
1917 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
1918 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
1919 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
1920 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
1922 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
1923 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1924 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
1925 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
1926 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
1928 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
1929 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
1930 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
1931 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
1932 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
1933 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
1934 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
1935 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
1936 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
1937 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
1938 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
1939 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
1940 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
1941 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
1942 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
1943 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
1945 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
1946 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
1947 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
1948 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
1949 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
1950 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
1951 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
1952 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
1953 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
1954 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
1955 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
1956 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
1957 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
1958 recursive errors or deadlock.
1959 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
1960 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
1961 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
1963 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
1964 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
1965 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
1966 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
1967 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
1968 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
1969 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
1970 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
1972 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
1973 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
1974 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
1975 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
1976 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1977 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
1978 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
1979 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
1981 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
1982 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
1983 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
1984 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
1985 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
1986 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
1987 their constant arguments.
1988 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
1989 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1990 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
1991 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
1992 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
1993 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
1994 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
1995 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
1996 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
1997 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
1998 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
1999 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
2000 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
2001 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
2002 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
2003 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
2004 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
2005 * improvements to the Windows port:
2006 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
2007 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
2009 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
2010 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
2011 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
2012 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
2013 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2014 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
2015 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
2016 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
2017 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
2018 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
2019 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
2020 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
2021 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
2022 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
2024 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
2026 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
2027 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
2028 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
2029 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2030 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
2031 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2032 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
2033 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2034 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
2035 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
2037 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
2038 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
2039 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
2040 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
2041 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
2042 compile-time style-warning.
2043 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
2044 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
2045 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
2046 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
2047 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
2048 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
2049 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
2050 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
2051 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
2052 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
2053 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
2054 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
2055 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
2056 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
2057 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
2058 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
2060 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
2061 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
2062 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
2063 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
2064 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
2065 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
2066 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
2067 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
2068 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
2070 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
2072 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
2075 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
2076 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
2077 for the associated fast function is also produced.
2078 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
2080 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
2081 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
2082 special handling by the pretty printer.
2083 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
2084 now interact correctly with type declarations.
2085 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
2086 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2087 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
2088 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
2089 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
2090 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
2091 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
2092 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
2094 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
2095 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
2096 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
2097 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
2098 object loading function as-it.
2099 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
2100 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
2102 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
2103 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
2105 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
2106 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
2107 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
2108 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2109 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
2110 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
2111 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
2112 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
2113 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
2115 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
2116 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
2117 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
2118 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
2119 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
2120 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
2121 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2122 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
2123 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2124 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
2125 file descriptors when there were none.
2126 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
2127 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
2128 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
2129 pathnames without a directory.
2130 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
2131 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
2132 not signal an error.
2133 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
2134 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
2135 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
2136 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
2137 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
2138 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
2139 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
2140 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
2142 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
2143 after alien stack frames.
2144 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
2146 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
2147 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
2148 generic function across method addition and removal.
2149 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
2150 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
2151 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
2152 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
2154 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
2155 non-local transfer of control.
2156 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
2157 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
2158 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
2159 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
2160 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
2161 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
2162 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
2164 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
2165 owned by other threads anymore.
2166 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
2167 subsequence. (reported by budden)
2168 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
2169 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
2170 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
2171 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
2173 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
2174 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
2175 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
2176 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
2177 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
2178 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
2179 added to the user manual.
2180 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
2181 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
2182 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
2183 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
2184 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
2185 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
2187 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
2189 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
2190 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
2191 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
2192 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
2193 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
2194 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
2195 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
2197 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
2198 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
2200 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
2201 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
2202 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
2203 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
2204 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
2205 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
2206 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
2208 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
2209 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
2211 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
2212 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
2213 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
2214 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
2215 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
2216 type of a variable is made.
2217 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
2218 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
2220 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
2221 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2222 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
2223 (thanks to Michael Weber)
2224 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
2225 (thanks to Michael Weber)
2226 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
2227 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
2228 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
2230 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
2231 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
2232 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
2233 of the type that's the value of this variable.
2234 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
2236 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
2237 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
2238 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
2239 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
2240 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
2241 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
2242 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
2243 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
2244 * improvements to the Windows port:
2245 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
2246 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
2247 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2248 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
2249 to single-float coercions.
2250 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
2251 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
2252 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
2253 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
2254 containing invalid type specifiers.
2255 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
2256 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
2258 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
2259 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
2260 profiles only the current thread.
2261 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
2262 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
2263 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
2264 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
2265 has also additional sorting options.
2266 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
2268 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
2269 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
2270 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
2271 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
2272 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
2273 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
2275 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
2277 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
2278 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
2279 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
2280 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
2281 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
2282 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
2284 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
2285 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2286 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
2287 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
2288 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
2289 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
2290 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
2291 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
2292 (thanks to James Knight)
2293 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
2294 (thanks to Travis Cross)
2295 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2296 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
2297 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
2298 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
2299 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
2300 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
2301 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
2303 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
2304 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
2305 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
2306 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
2307 use this feature in the meanwhile.
2308 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
2309 adjust thread default control stack size.
2310 * enhancement: improved TIME output
2311 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
2312 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
2313 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
2314 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
2315 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
2316 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
2317 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
2318 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
2320 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
2322 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
2323 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
2324 in normal SPEED policies.
2325 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
2326 in normal SPEED policies.
2327 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
2328 to Sidney Markowitz)
2329 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
2330 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2331 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
2332 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2333 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
2334 as the second argument.
2335 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
2336 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
2337 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
2339 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
2340 platform word lengths.
2341 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
2342 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
2343 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
2345 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
2346 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2348 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
2349 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
2350 signaling added in 1.0.14.
2351 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
2352 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
2353 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
2354 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
2355 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
2356 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2357 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
2358 on threaded platforms.
2359 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
2360 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
2361 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
2362 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
2363 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
2364 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
2365 representation is available.
2366 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
2367 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
2368 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
2369 Francois-Rene Rideau)
2370 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
2371 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2372 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
2373 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
2374 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
2375 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
2376 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
2377 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
2378 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
2380 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
2381 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
2382 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
2383 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
2384 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
2385 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
2386 traces SETF-functions as well.
2387 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
2388 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
2389 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
2390 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
2392 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
2393 is now more efficient.
2394 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
2395 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
2396 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
2397 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
2398 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
2399 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2400 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
2401 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
2402 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
2403 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
2404 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
2406 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
2407 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
2408 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
2409 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
2410 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
2411 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
2412 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
2413 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
2414 * improvements to the Windows port:
2415 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
2416 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
2418 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
2419 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
2420 (see documentation for details.)
2421 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
2422 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
2423 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
2424 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
2425 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
2427 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
2428 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
2429 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
2430 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
2431 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
2432 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
2433 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
2434 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
2435 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
2437 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
2438 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
2439 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
2440 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
2441 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
2442 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
2443 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
2445 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
2446 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
2447 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
2448 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
2449 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
2450 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
2451 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
2452 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
2454 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
2455 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
2456 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
2457 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
2458 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
2459 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
2460 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
2461 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
2462 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
2463 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2464 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
2465 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
2466 known at compile-time.
2467 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
2468 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
2469 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
2471 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
2472 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
2474 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
2475 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2476 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2477 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
2478 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
2479 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
2481 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
2483 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
2485 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
2488 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
2489 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
2490 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
2491 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
2492 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
2493 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
2494 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
2495 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
2496 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
2497 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
2498 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
2499 END is smaller then START.
2500 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
2501 calls to profiled functions.
2502 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
2503 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
2504 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
2505 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
2506 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
2507 hash-table usage have been fixed.
2508 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
2509 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
2510 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
2511 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
2512 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
2513 slime to work again.
2515 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
2516 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
2517 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
2518 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
2519 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
2520 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
2521 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
2522 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
2523 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
2524 and will signal an error at runtime.
2525 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
2526 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
2527 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
2529 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
2530 platforms providing stack allocation support.
2531 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
2532 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
2534 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
2535 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
2536 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
2537 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2538 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
2539 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
2541 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
2542 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
2544 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
2546 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
2547 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
2548 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
2549 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
2550 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
2551 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
2552 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
2553 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
2554 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
2555 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2556 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
2557 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
2558 a specializer parameter for the method.
2559 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
2560 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
2561 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
2562 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
2563 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
2565 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
2566 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
2568 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
2569 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
2570 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2571 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
2572 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
2573 the CAS operation was being performed.
2574 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
2575 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
2576 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
2577 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
2580 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
2581 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
2582 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
2583 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
2585 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
2586 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
2587 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2588 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
2589 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
2590 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2591 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
2592 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
2593 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
2594 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
2595 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
2596 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
2597 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
2598 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
2599 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
2601 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
2602 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
2603 the underlying file descriptor.
2604 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
2605 could cause buffer-overflows.
2606 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
2607 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
2608 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
2610 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
2612 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
2613 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
2614 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
2615 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
2616 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
2617 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
2620 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
2621 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
2622 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
2623 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
2624 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
2625 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
2626 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
2628 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
2630 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
2631 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
2632 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
2633 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
2634 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
2635 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
2637 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
2638 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
2639 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
2640 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
2641 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
2642 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
2643 objects that can be seen by the GC.
2644 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
2645 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
2646 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
2648 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
2649 as the property-list of a symbol.
2650 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
2651 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
2652 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
2655 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
2656 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
2657 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
2658 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
2659 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
2660 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
2661 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
2662 debugging and introspective support.
2663 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
2664 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
2665 has the owning thread as its value.
2666 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
2667 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
2669 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
2670 "a constant string".
2671 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
2672 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
2673 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
2674 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2675 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
2676 (depending on the bignum size.)
2677 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
2679 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
2680 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
2682 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
2683 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
2685 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
2686 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
2687 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
2688 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
2689 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
2692 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
2693 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
2694 as a contrib module.
2695 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
2696 significantly faster.
2697 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2698 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
2699 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2700 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2701 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
2702 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
2703 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
2704 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
2705 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2706 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
2707 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
2709 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
2711 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
2712 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
2713 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
2714 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
2715 that use the generational garbage collector
2716 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
2718 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
2719 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
2721 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
2723 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
2724 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
2725 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
2726 system running with GC inhibited.
2727 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
2728 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
2729 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
2730 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
2731 (reported by Peter Graves)
2733 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
2734 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
2735 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
2737 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
2738 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
2739 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
2740 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
2741 documented as unsafe.
2742 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
2743 in multithreaded application code.
2744 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
2745 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
2746 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
2748 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
2749 variants no longer cons.
2750 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
2751 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
2752 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
2753 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
2754 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
2755 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
2756 are significantly faster.
2757 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
2758 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
2759 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
2760 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
2761 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
2762 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
2763 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
2764 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
2765 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
2766 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
2767 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
2769 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
2770 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
2771 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
2772 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2773 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
2774 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2775 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
2776 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2777 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
2778 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
2779 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
2780 line in a file is unlimited.
2781 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
2782 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
2783 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
2784 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
2785 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
2786 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
2787 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
2788 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2789 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
2790 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
2791 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2792 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
2793 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
2794 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
2795 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
2796 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
2797 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
2798 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
2799 experimental until this is fixed.
2800 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
2801 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2802 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
2803 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
2804 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
2806 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
2807 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
2808 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
2809 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
2810 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
2811 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
2813 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
2814 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
2815 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2816 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
2817 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
2818 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
2819 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2820 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
2821 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
2823 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
2824 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
2825 (reported by Andras Simon)
2826 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
2827 bugs remain on x86-64.)
2828 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
2829 funcallable instances.
2830 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
2831 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
2833 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
2834 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2835 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
2836 non-base strings as arguments
2837 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
2839 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
2840 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
2842 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
2843 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
2844 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2845 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
2846 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2847 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2848 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
2849 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
2850 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
2852 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
2853 (thanks to Jon Buller)
2854 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
2855 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
2858 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
2859 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
2860 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
2862 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
2863 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
2864 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
2865 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
2866 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
2868 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
2869 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
2870 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
2871 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2872 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
2873 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2874 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
2875 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
2876 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
2877 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
2878 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2879 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
2880 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
2881 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
2882 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
2883 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
2884 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2885 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2886 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
2887 stack frames from alien callbacks.
2888 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2889 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
2890 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
2891 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2893 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
2894 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
2895 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
2896 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
2897 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
2898 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
2899 sb-introspect contrib.
2900 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
2901 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
2902 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
2903 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
2904 users and the general community)
2905 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
2906 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
2907 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
2908 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
2909 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2910 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
2911 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
2912 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2913 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
2914 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2915 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
2916 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
2917 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
2918 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
2919 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
2920 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
2922 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
2923 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
2924 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
2925 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
2926 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
2927 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
2928 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
2930 * improvements to the Windows port:
2931 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
2932 to Alastair Bridgewater)
2933 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
2935 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
2936 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2938 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
2939 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
2940 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2941 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
2942 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
2943 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
2944 core, and restored on startup.
2945 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
2946 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2947 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
2948 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
2949 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
2950 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
2951 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
2953 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
2954 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2955 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
2957 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
2958 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
2959 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
2961 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
2962 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2963 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
2964 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2965 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
2966 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
2968 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
2969 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
2970 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
2971 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
2972 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
2973 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
2974 (reported by Josip Gracin)
2975 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
2976 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
2977 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
2978 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
2979 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
2980 and don't cause extra consing
2981 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
2982 whose elements types have been declared.
2983 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
2984 ** Support for allocation profiling
2985 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
2986 * Improvements to the Windows port:
2987 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
2988 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
2989 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2990 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
2992 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
2993 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
2994 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
2995 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
2996 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
2998 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
2999 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
3000 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
3002 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
3003 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
3004 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
3005 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
3006 with non-variable places
3007 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
3008 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
3009 code more stable against memory faults.
3010 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
3011 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
3012 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
3013 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
3016 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
3017 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
3018 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
3019 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
3020 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
3021 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
3022 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
3023 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
3024 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3025 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3026 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
3027 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
3028 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
3030 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
3031 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
3032 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
3033 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
3034 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
3035 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
3036 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
3038 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
3039 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
3041 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
3042 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
3043 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
3044 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
3045 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
3046 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
3047 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
3048 to the single-stepper REPL.
3049 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
3050 for a type now works.
3051 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
3053 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
3054 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
3055 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
3056 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3057 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
3058 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
3059 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
3060 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
3062 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
3063 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
3064 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
3065 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
3066 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
3067 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
3068 whose bindings are modified
3069 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
3070 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
3071 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
3072 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
3074 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
3075 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
3076 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
3077 as specified by AMOP.
3078 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
3080 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
3081 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3082 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
3083 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
3084 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
3085 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
3086 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
3087 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
3088 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
3089 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
3090 better type inference.
3091 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
3092 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
3093 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
3094 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
3095 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
3096 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3097 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
3098 initialization of methods can now be used to override
3099 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
3101 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
3102 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
3103 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
3104 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
3105 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
3107 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
3108 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
3109 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
3110 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
3111 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
3112 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
3113 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
3114 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
3115 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
3116 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
3117 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
3118 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
3119 (reported by James Y Knight).
3120 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
3121 argument for shadowing by local functions.
3122 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
3124 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
3125 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
3126 with type-inference.
3127 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
3128 types in some cases.
3129 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
3130 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3131 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
3133 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
3134 * thread-safety improvements:
3135 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
3136 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
3137 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
3139 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
3140 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
3142 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
3143 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
3144 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
3146 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
3147 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
3148 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
3149 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
3150 class became finalizeable.
3151 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
3152 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
3153 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
3154 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
3156 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
3157 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
3158 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
3159 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
3160 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
3161 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
3162 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3163 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
3164 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
3165 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
3166 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
3167 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
3168 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
3169 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3170 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
3171 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
3172 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
3173 * minor code generation optimizations:
3174 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
3175 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
3176 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
3177 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
3178 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
3179 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3180 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
3181 return its argument.
3183 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
3184 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
3186 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
3188 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
3189 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
3190 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
3191 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
3192 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
3193 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
3194 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
3195 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
3196 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
3197 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
3198 the low-level debugger.
3199 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
3200 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
3201 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
3202 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
3204 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
3205 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
3206 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
3208 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
3209 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3210 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
3211 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
3212 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
3213 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
3214 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
3215 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
3216 (reported by James Y Knight)
3217 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
3218 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
3219 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
3220 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
3221 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
3222 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
3223 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
3224 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
3225 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
3226 workaround for bug 403.)
3227 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
3228 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3229 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3230 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
3232 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
3233 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
3234 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
3236 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
3237 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
3238 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
3239 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
3240 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
3242 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
3244 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
3245 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
3246 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
3249 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
3250 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
3251 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
3252 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
3253 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
3254 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
3255 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
3256 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
3257 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
3258 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
3259 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
3260 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
3261 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
3262 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
3263 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
3264 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
3265 documentation on package locks for details.
3266 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
3268 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
3269 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
3270 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
3271 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
3272 immediately available from the stream
3273 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
3274 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
3275 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
3276 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
3278 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
3279 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
3280 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
3282 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
3283 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
3284 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
3286 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
3287 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
3288 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
3289 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
3291 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
3292 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
3293 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
3294 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3295 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
3296 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
3297 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3298 ** sb-grovel supported
3299 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
3300 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
3301 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
3302 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
3303 ** floating-point exception handling support
3304 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
3305 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3306 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
3307 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
3308 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
3309 structure accessors.
3310 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
3312 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
3313 defaults for optional parameters.
3314 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
3315 function, which is already optimized.
3317 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
3318 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
3319 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
3320 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
3321 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
3322 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
3323 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
3324 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
3325 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
3326 this change is to make it easier to distribute
3327 location-independent binaries.
3328 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
3329 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
3331 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
3332 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
3333 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
3334 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
3335 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
3336 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
3337 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
3338 Alastair Bridgewater)
3339 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
3340 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
3341 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3342 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
3343 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
3344 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
3345 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
3346 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
3347 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
3348 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
3349 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
3350 (thanks to James Knight)
3351 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
3352 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
3354 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
3355 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
3356 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
3357 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
3358 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
3359 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
3360 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
3361 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
3362 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
3363 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
3364 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
3365 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
3366 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
3367 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
3368 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
3369 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
3370 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
3371 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
3372 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
3373 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
3374 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
3376 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
3377 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
3378 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
3379 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3380 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
3381 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
3383 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
3384 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
3385 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
3386 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
3387 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
3388 many others over the years)
3389 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
3390 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
3391 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
3393 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
3394 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
3395 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3396 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
3397 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
3398 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
3400 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
3402 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
3403 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
3404 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
3405 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
3406 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
3407 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
3408 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
3409 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
3410 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
3411 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
3412 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
3413 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3414 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
3415 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3417 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
3418 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3419 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
3420 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
3421 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
3422 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
3423 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
3424 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
3425 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
3426 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3427 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
3428 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
3429 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
3430 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
3431 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
3432 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
3433 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
3434 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3435 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
3436 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
3438 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
3439 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3440 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
3441 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
3442 index variables in LOOP
3443 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
3444 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3445 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
3446 that don't have a docstring
3448 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
3449 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3450 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
3451 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
3452 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
3453 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
3454 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
3455 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
3456 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
3457 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
3458 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
3459 Costanza's "Closer" project)
3460 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
3461 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
3463 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
3464 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
3465 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
3466 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
3467 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
3468 and Pascal Costanza)
3469 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
3470 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
3471 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
3472 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
3473 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3474 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
3475 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
3476 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
3477 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3478 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
3479 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3480 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
3481 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3482 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
3483 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3484 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
3485 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
3486 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
3487 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
3489 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
3490 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3491 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
3492 floating point index variable or a negative step.
3494 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
3495 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
3496 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
3497 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
3498 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
3499 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3500 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
3501 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
3502 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
3503 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
3504 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
3505 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
3506 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
3507 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
3508 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3509 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
3510 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
3511 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
3512 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
3513 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
3514 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
3515 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3516 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
3517 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3518 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
3519 and dump core on SIGQUIT
3521 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
3522 from their parents (see manual)
3523 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
3524 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
3525 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
3526 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
3527 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
3528 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
3530 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3531 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
3532 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
3533 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
3535 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
3536 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
3537 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
3539 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
3540 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
3541 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
3542 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
3543 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
3544 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
3545 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
3546 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
3547 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
3548 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
3549 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
3550 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
3551 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
3552 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
3554 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
3555 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
3556 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
3558 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
3559 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
3561 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
3562 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3563 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
3564 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
3565 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
3566 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
3567 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
3568 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
3569 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
3571 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
3572 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
3573 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
3574 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
3575 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
3576 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
3578 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
3580 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
3581 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
3582 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
3583 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
3584 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
3585 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
3586 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
3587 classes; see the manual for more details;
3588 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
3589 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
3590 requested slot ordering.
3592 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
3594 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
3595 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
3597 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
3599 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
3600 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
3601 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
3602 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
3603 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3604 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
3605 the :method-class keyword argument.
3607 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
3608 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
3609 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
3610 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3611 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
3612 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3613 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
3614 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3615 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
3616 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
3617 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
3619 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
3620 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
3621 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
3622 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
3623 is switched on or off
3624 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
3625 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
3626 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
3628 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
3629 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3630 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
3631 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
3632 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3633 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
3634 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
3635 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
3636 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
3638 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
3639 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
3640 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
3641 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
3642 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
3643 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
3644 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
3646 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
3647 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
3648 not prevent gc from running
3649 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
3650 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
3651 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
3652 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
3653 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
3654 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
3655 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
3656 an inline 32-bit rotation.
3658 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
3659 there is only one thread in the session
3660 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
3661 written to in another
3662 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
3663 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
3665 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
3666 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
3668 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
3669 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3670 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
3671 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
3672 the orignal arguments.
3673 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
3675 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
3676 name a compiled function.
3677 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
3678 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
3679 derivation were fixed.
3680 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
3681 list-form FUNCTION type.
3682 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
3683 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
3684 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
3686 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
3687 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
3688 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
3689 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
3690 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
3691 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
3693 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
3694 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
3695 of a select system call
3696 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
3698 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
3699 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
3701 * various error reporting improvements.
3702 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
3703 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3704 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
3705 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
3706 code and foreign data with the same name.
3708 ** added x86-64 support
3709 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
3710 objects instead of thread ids
3711 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
3712 starting up or going down
3713 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
3714 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
3715 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
3716 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
3717 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
3718 an inappropriate moment
3719 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
3720 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
3721 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
3722 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3723 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
3724 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
3725 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
3727 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
3728 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
3729 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
3730 range before calling Unix time functions
3732 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
3733 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
3734 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3735 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
3736 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
3737 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
3738 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3739 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
3740 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
3741 for more information.
3742 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
3743 pathname is a directory pathname.
3744 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
3745 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
3747 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
3748 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
3749 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
3750 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
3751 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
3752 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
3754 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
3755 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
3756 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
3757 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
3758 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
3759 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
3760 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3761 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
3762 the PowerPC platform.
3763 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
3764 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
3766 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
3767 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
3768 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
3769 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
3770 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
3771 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3773 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
3774 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
3775 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
3776 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
3777 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
3778 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3779 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
3780 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
3781 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
3782 as the name of a type, or vice versa
3783 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
3784 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
3785 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
3786 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
3787 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
3788 FLET or MACROLET forms
3789 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
3791 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
3793 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
3796 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
3797 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
3798 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
3799 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
3800 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
3801 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
3802 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
3803 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
3804 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
3805 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
3806 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
3807 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
3808 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
3809 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
3810 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
3811 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3812 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
3813 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3814 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
3815 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
3816 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
3817 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
3819 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3820 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
3821 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
3822 a file has the stream as its datum.
3823 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
3824 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
3825 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
3826 a correct expected type
3827 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
3828 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
3829 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
3830 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
3831 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
3832 on broadcast streams.
3834 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
3835 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3836 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
3837 --disable-debugger option instead.
3838 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
3840 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
3841 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
3842 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
3843 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
3844 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
3845 has been added to the manual.
3846 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
3847 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
3848 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
3849 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
3850 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
3851 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
3852 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
3853 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
3854 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
3855 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
3857 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
3858 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
3859 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
3860 (reported by Rajat Datta).
3861 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
3862 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
3864 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
3865 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
3866 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
3867 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
3868 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
3869 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
3870 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
3871 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
3872 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
3873 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
3874 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3875 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
3876 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3877 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
3878 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
3879 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3880 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3881 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
3882 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3884 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
3886 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
3887 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
3888 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
3889 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
3890 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
3892 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
3893 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
3894 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
3895 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
3896 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3897 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
3898 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
3900 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3901 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
3902 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
3904 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
3905 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
3906 types for complex arguments better.
3907 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
3909 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
3910 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
3912 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
3913 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
3914 resulting in GC crashes.
3915 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
3917 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
3920 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
3921 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
3922 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
3923 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
3924 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
3925 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
3926 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
3927 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
3928 returning to the top level.
3929 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
3930 global optimization policy.
3931 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
3932 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
3933 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
3935 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
3936 various incompatible changes.
3937 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
3938 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
3939 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
3940 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
3941 level local call to FOO".
3942 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
3943 now have more legible printed representation
3944 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
3945 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
3946 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
3947 explicitly requested.
3948 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
3949 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
3950 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
3951 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
3952 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
3954 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
3955 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
3956 (reported by Lutz Euler)
3957 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
3958 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3959 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
3960 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
3961 the specializer is now possible.
3962 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
3963 face of package deletion.
3964 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
3965 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
3966 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
3967 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
3968 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
3969 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
3970 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
3971 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
3972 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3973 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
3975 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3976 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
3977 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
3978 correctable errors to be signalled.
3979 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
3980 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
3983 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
3984 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3985 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
3987 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
3988 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3989 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
3990 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
3991 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
3992 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
3993 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
3994 related to the ~@F format directive.
3995 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
3997 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
3998 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
3999 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
4000 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
4002 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
4004 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
4005 coerce function designators to functions.
4006 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
4007 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
4008 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
4009 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
4010 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
4011 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
4012 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4013 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
4014 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
4015 start of the buffer at the next read.
4016 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
4017 passing it through to OPEN.
4018 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
4019 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
4020 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
4021 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
4022 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
4023 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
4024 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
4025 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
4027 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
4028 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
4029 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
4030 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
4031 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4032 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
4034 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4035 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
4036 secondary constituent character trait.
4037 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
4039 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
4041 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
4042 works more reliably.
4043 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
4044 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
4045 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
4047 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
4048 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
4050 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
4051 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
4052 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
4053 and reloading shared object files.
4054 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4055 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
4057 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
4058 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
4059 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
4061 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
4062 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
4064 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
4066 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
4067 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
4068 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
4069 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4070 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
4071 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
4072 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
4074 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
4075 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
4077 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
4078 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
4079 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
4080 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
4081 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
4083 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
4084 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
4085 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4086 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
4087 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
4088 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
4089 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
4090 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
4091 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
4092 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
4093 lisp characters are not eight bits.
4094 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4095 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
4096 the correct number of arguments.
4097 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
4098 to displaced strings.
4099 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
4100 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
4102 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
4103 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
4104 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
4105 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
4106 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
4107 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
4108 available at runtime.
4109 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
4110 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
4111 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
4112 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4113 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
4114 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
4115 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
4116 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
4117 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
4118 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
4119 of lambda-list keywords.
4120 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
4121 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
4123 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
4124 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
4125 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4126 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
4127 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
4128 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
4129 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
4131 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
4132 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
4133 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
4134 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
4135 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
4137 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4138 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
4139 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
4140 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
4141 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
4142 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4143 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
4145 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
4146 parameters correctly.
4147 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
4148 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
4149 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
4151 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
4154 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
4155 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
4156 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
4157 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
4159 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
4160 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
4161 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
4162 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
4163 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
4164 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
4165 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
4166 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
4167 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
4169 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
4170 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
4172 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
4174 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
4175 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
4176 (reported by Bruno Haible)
4177 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
4179 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
4180 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4181 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
4182 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
4183 (reported by David Morse)
4184 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
4185 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4186 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
4187 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4188 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
4189 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4190 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
4191 now exists, an signals an error.
4192 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
4193 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
4194 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4195 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
4196 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4197 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
4198 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
4199 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4200 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
4201 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4202 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
4203 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
4205 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
4206 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
4207 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
4208 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
4209 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4210 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
4211 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
4212 specialized array element types.
4213 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
4214 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4215 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
4216 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4217 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
4218 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
4219 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
4220 Wragg for the simple test case)
4221 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4222 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
4224 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
4225 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
4226 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
4227 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
4228 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
4230 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
4232 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
4233 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
4234 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
4235 references to global functions.
4236 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
4238 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
4240 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
4241 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4242 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
4243 supported platforms.
4244 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
4245 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
4246 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
4247 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
4248 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
4249 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
4250 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
4251 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
4252 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
4253 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
4254 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
4255 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
4256 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
4258 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
4259 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
4260 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
4261 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
4262 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
4263 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
4265 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
4266 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
4268 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
4269 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
4270 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
4271 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4272 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
4273 returns the right answer.
4274 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
4276 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
4278 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
4279 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
4281 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
4282 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
4284 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
4285 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
4286 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
4287 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
4288 the supported interface.
4289 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
4290 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
4291 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
4292 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
4293 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
4294 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
4295 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
4296 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
4297 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
4298 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
4299 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
4300 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
4301 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
4302 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
4303 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
4304 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
4305 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
4306 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
4307 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
4308 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
4309 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
4310 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
4311 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
4312 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
4313 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
4314 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
4315 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4316 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
4317 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
4319 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
4320 * incompatible change: the internal functions
4321 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
4322 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
4323 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
4324 instead of the old functions.
4325 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
4326 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
4328 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
4329 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
4331 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
4332 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
4333 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
4334 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
4336 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
4337 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4338 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
4339 (reported by Rick Taube)
4340 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
4341 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
4342 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
4343 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
4345 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
4346 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
4347 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
4348 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
4349 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
4350 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
4351 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
4352 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
4353 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
4354 represented relative to default pathnames.
4355 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
4356 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
4357 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
4359 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
4360 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
4361 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
4363 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4364 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
4365 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
4366 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
4368 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
4370 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
4371 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
4372 conditional newlines.
4373 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
4374 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
4375 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
4377 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
4378 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
4380 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
4381 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
4382 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
4383 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
4384 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
4385 compiled in unconditionally.
4386 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
4387 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
4388 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
4389 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
4390 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
4392 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
4393 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
4394 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
4395 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
4396 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
4397 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
4398 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
4399 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
4400 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
4401 an implementation-internal package.
4402 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
4404 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
4405 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
4406 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
4407 bodies are now more legible.
4408 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
4409 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
4410 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
4411 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
4412 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4413 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
4414 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
4416 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
4417 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
4418 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
4419 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
4420 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
4421 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
4422 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
4423 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
4424 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
4425 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
4427 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
4428 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
4429 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
4430 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
4431 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
4432 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
4433 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
4434 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
4435 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
4436 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
4437 system even when most of them are idle
4438 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
4439 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4440 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
4442 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
4443 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
4444 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
4445 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
4446 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
4448 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
4449 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
4450 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
4451 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
4452 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
4453 string for information on the protocol.
4454 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
4455 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
4457 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
4458 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
4460 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
4461 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
4462 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
4463 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
4464 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
4465 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
4467 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
4468 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
4470 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
4471 move between its address being taken and the call to
4472 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
4473 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
4474 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
4475 instances corresponding to C structs.
4477 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
4478 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
4479 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
4480 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
4481 has implications for memory management of client code
4482 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
4483 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
4484 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
4485 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
4486 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
4487 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
4488 quality should be considered deprecated.
4489 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
4490 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
4491 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
4492 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
4493 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
4495 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
4496 designator as the defaults argument.
4497 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
4498 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
4499 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4500 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
4501 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
4503 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
4505 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
4506 (thanks to Zach Beane)
4507 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
4508 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
4509 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4510 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
4512 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
4513 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4514 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
4515 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
4516 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
4517 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
4518 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4519 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
4520 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
4521 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
4522 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
4523 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4524 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
4525 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
4526 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
4527 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
4528 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
4530 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
4531 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
4532 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
4534 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
4535 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4536 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
4537 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
4538 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
4539 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
4540 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4541 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
4542 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
4544 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
4545 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
4547 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
4548 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
4550 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
4551 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
4552 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
4553 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
4555 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
4556 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
4557 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4558 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
4559 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
4560 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
4561 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
4562 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
4564 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
4565 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
4566 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
4568 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
4569 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
4571 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4572 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
4574 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
4575 from local to shared slots.
4576 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
4577 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
4578 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
4579 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
4581 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
4582 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
4583 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
4584 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
4585 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
4586 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
4587 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
4588 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
4589 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
4591 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
4593 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
4595 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
4596 print using #P"..." syntax.
4598 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
4599 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
4600 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
4601 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
4602 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
4603 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
4604 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
4605 * [placeholder for DX summary]
4606 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
4607 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
4608 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
4609 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
4610 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
4611 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
4612 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
4613 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
4614 the test case to Dave Roberts)
4615 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
4616 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
4617 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
4618 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
4619 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
4620 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
4621 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
4622 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4623 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
4624 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
4625 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
4626 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
4627 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4628 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
4629 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
4632 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
4633 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
4634 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
4635 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
4636 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
4637 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
4638 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
4639 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
4640 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
4641 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4642 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
4643 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
4644 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
4646 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
4647 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
4649 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
4650 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
4651 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4652 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
4653 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4654 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
4656 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
4657 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
4658 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
4660 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
4662 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
4664 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
4665 their output stream on EOF from read.
4666 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
4667 have been read to end-of-file.
4668 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
4670 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
4671 description of determination of which consecutive characters
4673 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
4674 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
4675 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4676 less than 10 works correctly.
4677 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4678 more than 10 works correctly.
4679 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
4680 the readtable currently in effect.
4682 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
4683 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
4684 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
4685 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
4686 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
4687 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
4688 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
4689 should usually be replaced by
4690 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
4691 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
4692 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
4693 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
4694 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
4695 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
4696 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
4697 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
4699 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
4700 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
4701 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4702 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
4703 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
4704 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4705 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
4706 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
4707 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
4708 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
4709 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
4710 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
4711 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
4713 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
4714 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
4715 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
4716 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4717 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
4718 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
4719 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
4720 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4721 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
4722 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
4723 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
4724 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
4725 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
4726 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
4727 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4728 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
4729 non-local entry points.
4730 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
4732 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4733 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
4735 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
4736 host is already defined.
4737 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
4739 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
4740 or not a character is whitespace.
4741 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
4742 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
4743 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
4745 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
4746 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
4748 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
4750 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
4751 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
4752 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
4753 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
4754 designator argument does not designate a stream.
4755 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
4756 examining the synonym.
4757 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
4759 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
4760 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
4762 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
4763 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
4764 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
4765 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
4766 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
4767 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
4768 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
4769 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
4770 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
4771 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4772 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
4773 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
4775 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
4776 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
4777 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4778 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
4779 stream position information.
4780 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
4781 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
4782 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
4783 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
4784 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4785 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
4787 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
4788 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
4790 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4791 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4792 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
4793 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
4794 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
4795 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
4796 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
4798 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
4800 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
4801 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
4802 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
4803 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
4804 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
4805 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
4806 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
4807 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
4808 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
4809 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
4810 the "SYS" logical host.
4811 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
4812 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
4813 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
4814 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4815 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
4816 now each have their own history, command character, and other
4817 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4818 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4819 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
4821 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
4822 shift greater than 32.
4823 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
4824 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
4825 in some circumstances.
4827 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
4828 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
4829 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
4830 environments like SLIME.
4831 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
4832 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
4833 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
4834 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
4835 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
4836 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
4837 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
4838 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
4839 argument types for all arguments.
4840 * various threading fixes
4841 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
4842 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
4843 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
4844 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
4846 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
4847 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
4848 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
4849 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
4850 arguments to a full call.
4851 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
4852 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
4853 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
4854 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
4856 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
4857 inserts a space where necessary.
4858 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
4859 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
4860 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
4861 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
4862 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
4863 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
4864 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
4865 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
4866 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
4867 counter now raises a meaningful error.
4868 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
4869 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
4871 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
4872 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
4873 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
4875 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
4877 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4878 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
4879 argument and negative second.
4880 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
4881 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
4882 interval, containing 0.
4883 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
4885 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
4886 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
4888 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
4889 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
4890 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
4891 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
4892 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
4893 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
4894 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
4895 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
4896 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
4897 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
4898 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
4899 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
4900 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
4901 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
4902 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
4903 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
4904 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
4905 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
4906 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
4907 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
4908 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
4909 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4910 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
4911 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
4912 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
4913 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
4914 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
4915 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
4916 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
4918 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
4919 platform now returns the right answer.
4920 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
4921 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
4922 precomputation is now tunable.
4923 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
4924 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
4925 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
4926 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
4927 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
4928 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
4929 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
4930 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
4931 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
4932 has been added for the alpha.
4933 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
4934 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
4935 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
4936 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
4937 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
4938 MEMBER-types to numeric.
4939 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
4941 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
4942 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
4943 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
4945 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
4946 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4947 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
4948 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
4949 might be pseudo-atomic.
4950 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
4951 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
4953 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
4955 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
4957 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
4958 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
4959 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
4960 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
4961 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
4962 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
4964 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4965 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
4966 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
4967 small float arguments.
4968 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
4970 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
4971 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
4972 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
4973 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
4974 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
4975 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
4977 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
4979 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
4980 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
4981 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
4982 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
4983 with negative last argument.
4984 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
4985 an error during type derivation.
4986 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
4988 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
4989 generates a 32-bit binary.
4990 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4991 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
4992 data structures referred to above).
4994 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
4995 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
4996 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
4997 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
4998 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
4999 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
5000 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
5001 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
5002 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
5003 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5004 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
5005 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
5007 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
5008 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
5010 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
5011 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
5012 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
5013 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
5014 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
5015 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
5016 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
5017 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
5018 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
5019 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
5020 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
5021 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
5022 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
5023 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
5024 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
5025 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
5026 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
5027 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5028 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
5029 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
5030 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
5031 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
5032 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5033 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
5034 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
5035 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
5036 optimization quality.
5037 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
5038 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
5039 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
5040 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
5041 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
5042 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5043 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
5044 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
5045 types form a lattice under type intersection.
5046 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
5047 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
5048 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
5049 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
5050 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
5051 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
5052 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
5053 calling the generic function.
5054 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
5055 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
5056 obscure ANSI requirements
5058 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
5059 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
5060 garbage, confusing the compiler.
5061 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
5062 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
5063 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
5064 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
5065 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
5066 circumstances could go off-by-one.
5067 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
5069 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
5070 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
5071 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
5072 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
5073 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
5074 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
5075 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
5076 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
5077 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
5078 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
5079 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
5080 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
5081 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
5082 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
5083 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
5084 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
5085 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
5086 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
5087 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
5088 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
5090 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
5091 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
5092 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
5093 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
5095 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
5096 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
5097 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
5098 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
5099 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
5100 provide helpful disassembly notes.
5101 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
5102 the class in more cases than previously.
5103 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
5104 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5105 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
5106 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
5107 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
5108 without lambda list.
5109 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
5110 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
5111 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5112 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
5113 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
5114 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
5116 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
5117 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
5118 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
5120 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
5121 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
5122 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
5123 were silently accepted).
5124 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
5125 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
5126 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
5127 to warn on static type mismatches and function
5128 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
5129 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
5130 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
5131 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
5132 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
5133 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
5134 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
5135 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
5136 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
5137 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
5139 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
5140 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
5141 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
5142 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
5143 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
5144 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
5146 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
5147 keywords or constants is permissible.
5148 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
5149 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
5150 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
5151 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
5152 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
5153 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
5154 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
5155 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
5157 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
5158 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
5159 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
5160 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
5161 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5162 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
5163 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
5165 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
5167 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
5168 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
5169 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
5170 respectively change and preserve the value.
5171 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
5172 is now better at handling symbol macros.
5173 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
5174 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
5175 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
5176 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
5177 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
5178 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
5179 their use properly signals an error now.
5180 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
5181 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
5182 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
5183 * fixed simple vector readable printing
5184 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
5185 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
5186 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
5187 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
5188 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
5189 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
5190 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5191 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
5192 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5193 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
5194 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
5195 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5196 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
5197 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
5198 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
5199 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
5200 causes a type error.
5201 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
5202 association between the name and a class.
5203 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
5204 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
5205 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5206 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
5207 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
5208 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
5210 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
5211 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
5212 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
5213 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
5215 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
5216 which its argument is a member.
5217 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
5218 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
5219 otherwise, it creates a new class.
5220 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
5221 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
5222 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
5223 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
5224 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
5225 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
5227 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
5228 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
5229 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
5230 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
5231 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
5232 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
5233 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
5235 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
5236 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
5237 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
5238 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
5239 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
5240 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
5241 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
5242 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
5243 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
5244 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
5245 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
5246 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
5247 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5248 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
5250 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
5251 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
5252 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
5253 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
5254 superclasses are applied.
5255 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
5256 no method was removed.
5257 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
5258 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
5259 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
5260 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
5262 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
5264 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
5265 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
5266 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
5267 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
5268 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
5269 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
5270 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
5271 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
5272 function lambda list.
5273 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
5275 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
5276 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
5277 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
5278 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
5280 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
5281 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
5282 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
5283 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
5284 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
5285 they look for GNU "make".
5287 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
5288 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
5289 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
5290 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
5292 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
5293 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
5294 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
5295 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
5296 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
5297 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
5298 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
5299 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
5300 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
5301 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
5303 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
5304 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
5305 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
5306 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
5307 libraries, and will know who they are.
5308 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
5309 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
5310 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
5311 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
5312 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
5313 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
5314 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
5315 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
5317 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
5318 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
5319 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
5320 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
5321 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
5322 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
5323 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
5324 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
5325 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
5326 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
5327 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5328 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
5330 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
5331 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
5332 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
5333 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
5334 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
5335 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
5336 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
5337 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
5338 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
5340 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
5341 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
5342 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
5343 this you were probably losing anyway.
5344 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
5345 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
5346 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
5347 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
5348 with names from the CL package.
5349 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
5350 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
5351 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
5352 documentation string.
5353 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5354 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
5356 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
5357 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
5358 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
5359 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
5361 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
5362 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
5364 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
5365 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5366 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
5368 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
5369 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
5370 arguments contain duplicated elements.
5371 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
5372 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
5373 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
5374 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
5375 in question is unbound.
5376 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
5377 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
5378 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
5379 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
5380 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
5382 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
5384 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
5385 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
5386 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
5387 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
5388 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
5389 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
5390 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
5391 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
5392 by Antonio Martinez)
5393 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
5394 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5395 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
5396 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
5397 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
5398 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
5399 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
5400 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5401 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
5402 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
5403 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
5404 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
5405 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
5406 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
5407 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
5408 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
5409 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
5410 on malformed property lists;
5412 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
5413 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
5414 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
5415 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
5416 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
5417 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
5418 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
5419 modules in this release include:
5420 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
5421 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
5422 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
5423 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
5424 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
5426 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
5427 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
5428 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5429 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
5430 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
5431 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
5432 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
5433 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
5435 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
5436 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
5437 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
5438 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
5439 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
5440 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
5441 the lexical environment.
5442 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
5443 unprintable packages can now be defined.
5444 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
5445 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5446 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
5447 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5448 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
5449 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
5450 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
5451 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
5452 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
5453 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
5454 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
5455 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
5456 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5457 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
5458 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
5459 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
5460 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
5461 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
5462 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
5463 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
5464 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
5465 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
5466 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
5468 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
5469 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
5470 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
5471 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5472 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
5473 not just nonnegative fixnums;
5474 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
5475 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
5476 freshly-consed result bit-array);
5477 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
5479 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
5480 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
5482 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
5483 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
5484 cases are accurately computed;
5485 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
5486 if it is in the last clause;
5487 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
5489 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
5490 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
5491 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
5492 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
5494 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
5495 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
5496 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
5497 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
5498 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
5500 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
5501 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
5502 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
5503 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
5505 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5506 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
5507 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
5508 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
5509 not cause a type error;
5510 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
5512 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
5513 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
5514 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
5515 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
5516 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
5517 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
5518 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
5519 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
5521 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
5522 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
5523 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
5524 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
5525 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
5526 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
5528 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
5529 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
5531 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
5532 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
5533 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
5534 only for symbols in the CL package.
5535 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
5536 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5537 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
5538 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
5539 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
5541 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5542 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
5543 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
5544 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
5545 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
5546 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
5547 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
5548 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
5549 conditional loop clause;
5550 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
5551 signals a type error iff it should.
5552 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5553 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
5554 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
5555 argument) no longer signals an error;
5556 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
5557 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
5558 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
5560 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
5561 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
5562 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
5564 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
5565 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
5566 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
5567 functionality on said platforms verified.
5568 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
5569 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
5571 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
5572 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
5573 component indicating that directory.
5574 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
5575 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
5576 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
5577 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
5578 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5579 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
5581 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
5582 primary methods with no specializers;
5583 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
5585 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
5586 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
5587 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
5588 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
5590 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
5591 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
5592 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
5594 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
5595 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
5596 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
5597 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
5598 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
5599 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
5600 class STANDARD-CLASS;
5601 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
5602 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5603 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
5604 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
5606 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
5607 value producing form;
5608 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
5609 variables are bound and made to have no value;
5610 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
5612 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
5613 is not a valid sequence index;
5614 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
5615 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
5616 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5617 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
5619 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
5620 symbol-macro places;
5621 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
5622 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
5624 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
5626 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
5628 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
5629 invariant when deleting code.
5630 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
5631 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
5633 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
5634 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5635 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
5637 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
5638 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
5640 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
5641 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
5642 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5643 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
5645 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
5646 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5647 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
5648 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
5650 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
5651 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
5652 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
5653 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
5654 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5655 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
5656 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
5657 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
5658 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
5659 sbcl and .core files.)
5660 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
5661 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
5662 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
5663 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
5664 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
5665 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5666 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
5668 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
5669 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
5670 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
5671 argument precedence order.
5672 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
5673 derived types contradict their declared type.
5674 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
5675 so it can be non-toplevel.
5676 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
5677 implementation of DEFMACRO).
5678 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
5679 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
5680 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
5682 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
5683 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
5684 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
5685 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
5686 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
5687 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
5688 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
5689 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
5690 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
5691 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
5692 symbol macro only once
5693 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
5694 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
5695 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
5698 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
5699 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
5700 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
5701 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
5702 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
5703 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
5704 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
5705 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
5706 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
5707 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5708 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
5709 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
5711 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
5712 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
5713 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
5714 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
5715 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5716 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
5718 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
5720 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
5721 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
5722 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
5723 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
5724 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5725 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
5726 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
5727 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
5728 ways in different special cases
5729 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
5731 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
5732 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
5733 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
5734 are no longer optimized away.
5735 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
5736 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
5737 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
5738 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
5739 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
5740 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
5741 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
5742 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
5745 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
5746 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
5747 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
5748 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
5749 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
5750 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
5751 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
5753 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
5754 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
5755 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
5756 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
5757 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
5758 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
5759 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
5760 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
5761 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
5762 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
5763 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
5764 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
5765 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
5766 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
5767 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
5768 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
5769 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
5770 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5771 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
5772 that are names of constants or global variables.
5773 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
5774 alien routines with docstrings.
5775 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
5776 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
5778 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
5779 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
5780 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
5781 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5782 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
5783 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5784 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
5785 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
5786 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
5787 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5788 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
5789 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
5790 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
5791 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
5792 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
5793 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
5794 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
5795 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
5796 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
5797 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
5798 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
5799 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
5800 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
5802 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
5803 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
5805 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
5806 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
5807 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
5808 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
5809 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
5810 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
5811 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
5812 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
5813 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
5814 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
5816 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
5817 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
5818 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
5819 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
5820 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
5821 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
5822 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
5823 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
5824 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
5825 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
5826 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
5827 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
5828 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
5829 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
5830 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
5831 is no longer a static symbol.)
5833 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
5834 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
5835 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
5836 bootstrapping under CLISP.
5837 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
5839 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
5840 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
5842 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
5843 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
5844 to David Lichteblau)
5845 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
5846 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
5847 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
5849 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
5850 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5851 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
5852 count as they should.
5853 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
5854 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5855 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
5856 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
5857 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
5858 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
5859 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
5860 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
5861 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
5862 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
5863 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
5864 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
5865 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
5866 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
5867 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
5869 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
5870 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
5871 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
5873 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
5875 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
5876 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
5877 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
5878 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
5879 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
5880 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5881 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
5883 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
5884 to Christophe Rhodes)
5885 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
5886 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
5887 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
5888 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
5889 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
5890 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
5891 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
5893 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
5894 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
5895 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
5896 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
5897 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
5898 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5899 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
5900 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
5901 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
5902 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
5903 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
5904 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
5905 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
5907 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
5908 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
5909 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
5910 INFO database to support symbol macros.
5911 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
5912 (thanks to coreythomas)
5913 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
5914 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
5915 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
5916 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
5917 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
5919 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
5920 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
5921 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
5922 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
5923 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
5924 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
5925 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
5926 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
5927 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
5928 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5929 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
5930 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
5931 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
5933 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
5934 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
5937 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
5938 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
5939 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
5940 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
5941 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
5942 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
5943 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
5944 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
5945 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
5946 systems than the old 4M value was)
5947 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
5948 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
5949 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
5950 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
5951 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
5952 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
5953 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
5955 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
5956 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
5957 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
5958 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
5959 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
5961 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
5962 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
5963 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5964 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
5965 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
5966 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
5967 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
5968 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
5970 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
5971 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5972 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
5973 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5974 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
5975 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
5976 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
5977 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
5979 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5980 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5981 * several changes related to debugging:
5982 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
5983 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
5984 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
5985 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
5986 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
5987 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
5988 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
5991 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
5993 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
5994 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
5995 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
5996 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
5997 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
5998 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
5999 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
6000 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
6002 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
6003 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
6004 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
6005 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6006 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
6007 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
6008 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
6009 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
6010 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
6011 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
6012 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
6013 file format number to change again.
6015 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
6016 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
6017 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
6018 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
6020 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
6021 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
6022 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
6023 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
6024 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
6025 FUNCALL on the result.
6026 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
6027 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
6028 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
6029 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
6030 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
6031 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
6032 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
6033 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
6035 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
6036 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
6037 the old compiler produced.
6038 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
6039 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
6040 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
6041 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
6042 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
6043 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
6044 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
6045 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
6046 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
6047 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
6048 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
6049 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
6050 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
6051 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
6052 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
6053 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
6054 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
6055 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
6056 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
6057 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
6058 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
6059 straightened out in some future version.)
6060 * minor incompatible changes:
6061 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
6062 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
6063 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
6064 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
6065 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
6066 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
6067 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
6068 implementation dependent:
6069 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
6070 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
6071 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
6072 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
6073 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
6074 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
6075 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
6076 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
6078 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
6080 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
6081 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
6082 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
6083 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
6084 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
6085 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
6086 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
6087 are no longer used for output.
6088 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
6089 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
6090 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
6091 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
6092 increasing it even more.)
6093 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
6094 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
6095 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
6097 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
6098 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
6099 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
6100 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
6101 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
6102 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
6103 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
6104 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
6105 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
6106 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
6107 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
6108 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
6109 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
6110 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
6111 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
6112 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
6113 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
6114 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
6115 compilation of code which calls such functions.
6116 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
6117 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
6118 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
6119 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
6120 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
6121 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
6122 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
6123 built into the system.
6124 * many other bug fixes
6125 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
6126 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
6127 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
6128 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
6129 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
6131 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
6132 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
6133 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
6134 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
6135 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
6136 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
6137 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
6138 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
6139 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
6140 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
6141 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
6143 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
6144 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
6145 and several other LOOP problems as well
6146 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
6147 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
6148 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
6149 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
6150 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
6151 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
6152 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
6153 *** a bug in APROPOS
6154 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
6155 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
6156 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
6157 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
6158 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
6159 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
6160 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
6161 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
6162 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
6163 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
6164 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
6165 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
6166 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
6167 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
6168 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
6170 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
6171 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
6172 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
6173 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
6174 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
6175 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
6176 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
6177 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
6178 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
6179 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
6180 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
6181 some of which are apparent above.
6183 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
6184 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
6185 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
6186 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
6187 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
6188 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
6189 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
6190 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
6191 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
6192 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
6193 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
6194 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
6195 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
6196 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
6197 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
6198 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
6199 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
6200 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
6201 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
6202 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
6203 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
6204 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
6205 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
6206 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
6207 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
6208 different return types.
6209 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
6210 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
6211 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
6212 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
6213 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
6214 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
6215 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
6216 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
6217 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
6218 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
6220 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
6221 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
6222 does the right thing.
6223 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
6224 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
6225 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
6226 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
6227 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
6228 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
6229 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
6230 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
6231 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
6232 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
6233 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
6234 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
6235 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
6236 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
6237 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
6238 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
6239 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
6240 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
6241 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
6242 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
6243 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
6244 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
6245 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
6246 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
6247 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
6248 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
6249 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
6250 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
6251 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
6252 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
6253 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
6254 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
6255 since historically most system changes which required version
6256 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
6257 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
6260 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
6261 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
6262 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
6263 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
6264 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
6265 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
6266 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
6267 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
6268 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
6269 half a dozen others elsewhere
6270 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
6271 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
6272 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
6273 as flaky as they were.
6274 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
6275 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
6276 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
6277 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
6278 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
6279 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
6280 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
6281 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
6283 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
6284 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
6285 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
6286 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
6287 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
6288 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
6289 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
6290 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
6291 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
6292 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
6293 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
6294 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
6295 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
6296 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
6297 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
6298 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
6299 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
6300 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
6301 more obscure bugs as well
6302 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
6303 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
6304 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
6305 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
6306 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
6307 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
6308 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
6309 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
6310 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
6311 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
6312 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
6314 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
6315 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
6317 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
6319 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
6320 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
6321 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
6322 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
6323 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
6324 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
6325 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
6326 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
6327 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
6328 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
6329 are local in this sense.)
6330 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
6331 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
6332 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
6333 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
6334 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
6335 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
6336 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
6337 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
6338 system's STREAM objects.
6339 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
6340 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6341 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
6342 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6343 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
6344 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
6345 environment from the original process instead of starting the
6346 new process in an empty environment.
6347 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
6348 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
6349 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
6350 for porting convenience.
6351 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
6352 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
6354 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
6356 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
6357 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
6358 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
6359 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
6360 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
6361 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
6362 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
6363 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
6364 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
6365 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
6366 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
6367 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
6368 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
6369 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
6370 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
6371 many fewer weird special cases.
6372 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
6373 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
6374 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
6375 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
6376 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
6377 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
6378 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
6379 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
6380 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
6381 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
6382 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
6385 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
6387 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
6388 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
6389 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
6391 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
6392 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
6393 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
6394 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
6395 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
6396 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
6397 should be constructed the same way as before.
6398 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
6399 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
6400 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
6401 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
6402 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
6403 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
6404 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
6405 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
6406 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
6407 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
6408 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
6409 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
6410 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
6411 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
6412 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
6413 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
6414 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
6415 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
6416 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
6417 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
6418 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
6419 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
6421 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
6422 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
6423 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
6424 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
6425 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
6426 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
6427 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
6428 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
6430 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
6432 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
6433 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
6434 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
6435 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
6436 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
6438 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
6439 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
6440 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
6441 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
6442 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
6443 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
6444 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
6445 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
6446 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
6447 and Douglas Crosher.
6448 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
6449 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
6450 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
6452 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
6453 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
6454 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
6455 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
6456 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
6457 undefined function error.
6458 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
6459 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
6460 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
6461 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
6462 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
6463 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
6464 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
6465 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
6466 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
6467 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
6468 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
6469 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
6470 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
6472 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
6474 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
6475 CVS repository on my home machine).
6476 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
6477 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
6478 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
6479 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
6480 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
6481 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
6482 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
6483 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
6484 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
6485 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
6486 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
6487 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
6488 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
6489 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
6490 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
6491 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
6492 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
6493 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
6494 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
6495 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
6496 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
6497 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
6499 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
6500 FreeBSD have been added.
6501 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
6502 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
6503 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
6504 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
6505 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
6506 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
6508 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
6509 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
6510 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
6511 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
6512 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
6513 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
6514 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
6515 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
6517 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
6518 away by constant folding
6519 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
6520 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
6521 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
6522 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
6523 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
6524 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
6525 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
6526 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
6527 diff-related operations.
6528 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
6529 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
6531 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
6533 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
6534 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
6535 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
6536 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
6537 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
6538 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
6539 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
6540 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
6541 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
6542 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
6543 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
6544 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
6545 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
6546 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
6547 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
6548 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
6549 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
6550 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
6551 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
6552 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
6553 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
6554 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
6555 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
6556 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
6557 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
6558 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
6559 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
6560 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
6561 instead of (VALUES T T).
6562 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
6563 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
6564 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
6565 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
6566 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
6567 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
6568 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
6569 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
6570 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
6571 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
6572 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
6573 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
6574 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
6575 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
6576 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
6577 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
6578 type will be interpreted at runtime.
6579 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
6580 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
6581 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
6582 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
6583 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
6584 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
6585 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
6586 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
6587 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
6588 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
6589 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
6590 fasl files for cold load.
6591 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
6592 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
6593 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
6594 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
6595 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
6596 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
6597 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
6598 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
6599 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
6600 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
6601 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
6603 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
6604 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
6605 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
6606 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
6607 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
6608 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
6609 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
6610 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
6611 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
6612 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
6613 renamed some files to increase consistency.
6614 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
6615 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
6616 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
6617 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
6618 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
6619 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
6621 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
6623 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
6624 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
6625 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
6626 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
6627 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
6628 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
6629 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
6630 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
6631 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
6632 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
6633 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
6634 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
6635 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
6636 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
6637 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
6638 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
6639 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
6640 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
6642 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
6643 as required by ANSI.
6644 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
6645 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
6646 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
6647 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
6649 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
6650 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
6651 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
6652 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
6653 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
6654 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
6655 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
6656 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
6658 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
6659 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
6660 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
6661 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6663 is now basically equivalent to
6664 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6665 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
6667 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
6668 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
6669 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
6670 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
6671 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
6672 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
6673 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
6674 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
6675 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
6676 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
6677 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
6678 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
6679 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
6680 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
6681 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
6682 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
6683 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
6684 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
6685 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
6686 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
6687 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
6688 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
6689 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
6691 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
6693 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
6694 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
6695 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
6696 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
6697 GNUMAKE environment variable.
6698 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
6699 can build without error under CMU CL.
6701 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
6703 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
6704 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
6705 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
6706 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
6707 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
6708 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
6709 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
6710 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
6711 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
6712 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
6713 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
6714 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
6715 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
6716 being initialized before the type system knew the final
6717 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
6718 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
6719 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
6720 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
6721 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
6722 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
6723 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
6724 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
6725 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
6726 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
6728 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
6729 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
6730 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
6731 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
6732 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
6733 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
6734 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
6735 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
6736 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
6737 it were currently supported.
6738 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
6739 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
6740 having to maintain patches.
6741 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
6742 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
6744 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
6746 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
6747 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
6748 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
6749 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
6750 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
6751 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
6752 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
6753 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
6754 * various new style warnings:
6755 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
6756 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
6757 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
6758 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
6759 as specified by ANSI.
6760 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
6761 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
6762 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
6763 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
6764 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
6765 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
6766 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
6767 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
6768 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
6769 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
6770 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
6771 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
6772 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
6773 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
6774 argument types can be determined at compile time.
6775 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
6776 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
6777 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
6778 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
6779 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
6780 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
6781 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
6784 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
6786 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
6787 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
6788 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
6789 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
6790 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
6791 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
6792 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
6793 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
6794 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
6796 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
6797 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
6798 the report form was printed.)
6799 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
6800 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
6801 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
6802 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
6803 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
6804 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
6805 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
6806 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
6807 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
6808 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
6809 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
6810 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
6811 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
6812 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
6813 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
6814 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
6815 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
6816 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
6817 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
6818 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
6819 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
6820 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
6821 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
6822 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
6823 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
6824 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
6825 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
6826 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
6827 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
6828 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
6829 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
6830 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
6831 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
6832 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
6833 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
6834 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
6835 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
6836 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
6837 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
6838 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
6839 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
6840 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
6841 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
6842 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
6843 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
6844 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
6845 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
6846 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
6847 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
6848 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
6849 know more about target types.
6850 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
6851 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
6852 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
6853 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
6854 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
6855 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
6857 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
6858 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
6859 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
6860 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
6861 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
6862 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
6863 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
6864 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
6865 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
6866 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
6867 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
6868 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
6869 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
6871 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
6874 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
6876 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
6877 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
6878 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
6879 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
6880 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
6881 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
6882 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
6883 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
6884 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
6885 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
6886 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
6887 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
6888 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
6889 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
6890 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
6891 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
6892 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
6893 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
6894 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
6895 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
6896 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
6897 invisible at the user level.)
6898 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
6899 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
6900 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
6902 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
6904 * tidied up "make.sh" script
6905 * tidied up system directory structure
6906 * better "clean.sh" behavior
6907 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
6908 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
6909 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
6910 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
6911 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
6912 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
6913 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
6914 * command line argument processing
6915 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
6916 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
6917 terminating SBCL on EOF
6918 * non-verbose GC by default
6919 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
6920 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
6921 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
6923 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
6924 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
6925 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
6926 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
6927 transformed along with everything else.
6928 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
6929 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
6930 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
6931 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
6932 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
6933 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
6934 debugging and testing purposes
6935 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
6936 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
6937 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
6938 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
6939 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
6940 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
6941 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
6943 * regularized formatting of source files
6944 * added an install.sh script
6945 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
6946 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
6947 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
6948 builds nicely on my old laptop.
6949 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
6950 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
6951 was not implemented)
6952 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
6953 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
6954 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
6955 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
6956 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
6958 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
6959 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
6960 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
6961 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
6962 COMPILE-FILE command)
6963 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
6964 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
6965 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
6966 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
6967 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
6968 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
6969 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
6970 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
6971 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
6972 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
6973 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
6974 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
6975 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
6976 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
6977 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
6979 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
6980 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
6981 known to be able to handle the current sources
6982 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
6983 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
6984 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
6985 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
6986 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
6987 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
6988 * removed host-oops.lisp
6989 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
6990 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
6991 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
6992 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
6993 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
6994 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by