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3 changes relative to sbcl-1.4.2:
4 * enhancement: SLEEP respects deadlines established by SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE.
5 * bug fix: DECODE-TIMEOUT and operators accepting a timeout no longer signal
6 an error when called with an argument that is of type (real 0) but not
7 (unsigned-byte 62) (lp#1727789)
8 * bug fix: fixed heap exhaustion bug when consing millions of small objects
9 * bug fix: sb-safepoint builds are now a lot less prone to deadlocks and odd
10 crashes (lp#1424031, lp#1268710)
12 changes in sbcl-1.4.2 relative to sbcl-1.4.1:
13 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:QUIT is no longer marked as deprecated
14 and behaves like SB-EXT:EXIT.
15 * enhancement: ASDF updated to 3.3.1. The ASDF release is dedicated to
16 the late Elias Pipping who put enormous amounts of work into it despite
17 his terminal illness. Thank you and rest in peace. (lp#1681201)
18 * enhancement: alien routines compiled with '-fsanitize=thread' and/or
19 '-fsanitize=memory' cause fewer false positives in error reporting.
20 * optimization: fewer instances of consing float constants at runtime.
21 * bug fix: a number of compiler bugs detected by Paul F. Dietz' randomized
22 tester. (lp#1731503, lp#1730699, lp#1723993, lp#1730434, lp#1661911,
23 lp#1729639, lp#1729471, lp#1728692)
24 * bug fix: better errors from NAMESTRING and friends on pathnames with no
25 namestrings. (lp#792154)
26 * bug fix: EQUAL and EQUALP compiler transforms were too confident in
27 deriving a result. (lp#1732277, lp#1732225)
28 * bug fix: FILL sometimes returned the underlying data vector rather than
29 the given array. (lp#1732553)
30 * bug fix: SEARCH returned the wrong answer in some cases. (lp#1732952)
31 * bug fix: the type (COMPLEX INTEGER) behaves more as specified by Function
32 TYPEP, which has stronger constraints than System Class COMPLEX.
33 (Reported by Eric Marsden, lp#1733400)
35 changes in sbcl-1.4.1 relative to sbcl-1.4.0:
36 * optimization: faster foreign callbacks.
37 * enhancement: complex arrays can be stack allocated.
38 * enhancement: PROCESS-KILL now exists on win32 and PROCESS-PID actually
40 * optimization: the register allocation method used by the compiler when
41 optimizing for speed is now faster for functions with large bodies.
42 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION works on big-endian CPUs
43 (fixes lp#490490 for real rather than by disabling a test)
44 * bug fix: code objects and bignums of large enough size to be placed
45 on GC pages without any other object no longer cause accidental copying
46 during garbage collection. (gencgc only)
47 * bug fix: sb-fasteval failure with 0-argument lambdas (lp#1722715)
48 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM doesn't leak handles on win32 and PROCESS-CLOSE
49 doesn't crash. (lp#1724472)
51 changes in sbcl-1.4.0 relative to sbcl-1.3.21:
52 * minor incompatible change: DESTRUCTURING-BIND treats non-toplevel () as
53 nested empty pattern. This seems to be what the standard mandates, so
54 conforming code should not be affected.
55 * ehancement: (GC :GEN 7) with gencgc will zero-fill dead pseudo-static
56 objects so that they do not spuriously cause reachability of objects that
57 would have been otherwise dead.
58 * enhancement: PROCESS-STATUS now tracks stopped and continued processes
59 properly (also fixes lp#1624941, based on patch by Elias Pipping).
60 * bug fix: INSPECT handles errors signaled while printing slot
62 * bug fix: DESCRIBE works on classes like it used to.
63 * bug fix: *LOAD-PATHNAME* and *LOAD-TRUENAME* are bound to pathnames
64 when processing a sysinit or userinit file
65 * bug fix: save-lisp-and-die is able to collect more garbage on non-x86oid
67 * bug fix: fixed out-of-bounds array read in optimized POSITION on bit-vectors
68 * bug fix: signal emulation respects the 128-byte stack red zone on x86-64
71 changes in sbcl-1.3.21 relative to sbcl-1.3.20:
72 * minor incompatible change: the CLOBBER-IT restart for defstruct redefintion
73 has been removed after a 15 year deprecation cycle. Use the new name,
74 RECKLESSLY-CONTINUE. Note also that this restart is hidden if deemed unsafe
75 due to altered placement of untagged slots in the structure.
76 * enhancement: the assignment of -DSBCL_PREFIX= in src/runtime/GNUmakefile
77 can be removed as a local patch, which results in an sbcl executable
78 that finds its core file relative to itself by looking in "../lib/sbcl".
79 * enhancement: backends using the generational GC are able to relocate
80 dynamic space anywhere the operating system places it.
81 This feature can be disabled by removing :relocatable-heap from the
82 build configuration. Not supported on Windows.
83 * enhancement: DEFMETHOD no longer signals IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING.
84 * enhancement: better type conflict detection for high order functions, e.g.
85 (find x "123" :test #'=)
86 * enhancement: the tabular output of ROOM is aligned dynamically, preventing
87 misaligned tables for larger sizes or counts.
88 * enhancement: ROOM reports on immobile space if applicable.
89 * optimization: optimized external-format routines.
90 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION returns :IMMOBILE
91 instead of :FOREIGN for objects in immobile space.
92 * bug fix: dotted lists in special forms and function call forms signal
94 * bug fix: EQUALP hash tables with pathname keys now ignore internal slots.
95 (lp#1712944, reported by Jason Miller)
97 changes in sbcl-1.3.20 relative to sbcl-1.3.19:
98 * minor incompatible change: DEF{GENERIC,METHOD} no longer accept some
99 illegal lambda lists such as (defgeneric bar (foo &key foo)) or
100 (defgeneric baz (t)) that were accepted before.
101 * optimization: a valueless &AUX binding in a BOA constructor does not
102 force all slots reads in safe code to perform a full type check.
103 * optimization: ATOMIC-PUSH and ATOMIC-POP generate better code
104 * bug fix: the low-level debugger would erroneously print - or not print
105 as the case may be - "(bad-address)" for some objects depending whether
106 the --dynamic-space-size argument was used at Lisp startup
107 * bug fix: a DEFCONSTANT with a non non-eql-comparable object as the value
108 could cause miscompilation if that constant appeared as the default
109 expression for an &OPTIONAL binding
110 * bug fix: generic function lambda lists are now checked for repeated
111 and otherwise illegal entries. (lp#1704114)
112 * bug fix: setting gencgc_verbose = 1 could cause deadlock in fprintf()
113 depending on the platform's stdio implementation. The relevant code
114 has been changed to use snprintf() and write() instead.
116 changes in sbcl-1.3.19 relative to sbcl-1.3.18:
117 * enhancement: specialized arrays can be printed readably without using
119 * enhancement: SB-DEBUG:PRINT-BACKTRACE truncates huge string arguments.
120 The full string remains available for inspection via (SB-DEBUG:ARG).
121 * bug fix: backtracing from several threads at once could fail
122 * bug fix: floating-point infinities could not be used as keys
123 in EQUALP hash tables. (lp#1696274)
124 * bug fix: random sb-fasteval failures. (lp#1642708)
125 * bug fix: align the stack in callback wrappers to defend against C
126 compiler over-aggressive use of SIMD. (lp#1697528)
127 * bug fix: don't try to find the class when reporting that a class does
128 not exist for a primitive type. (lp#1697226)
130 changes in sbcl-1.3.18 relative to sbcl-1.3.17:
131 * minor incompatible change: existing values of CFLAGS, ASFLAGS,
132 CPPFLAGS, and LINKFLAGS will be incorporated into C compiler
133 invocations when building from source.
134 * minor incompatible change: the result of WRITE-TO-STRING may be
135 a BASE-STRING if all characters written are of type BASE-CHAR.
136 * minor incompatible change: the broadcast stream with no output
137 streams is a singleton object. That object satisfies OPEN-STREAM-P
138 regardless of how many times CLOSE is invoked on it.
139 * enhancement: x86[-64] backends contain an experimental feature
140 which aids in demonstrating reachability of any object starting
141 from a tenured object or a thread stack by producing a proof
142 as a sequence of pointers to follow.
143 The file "tests/traceroot.test.sh" contains an example usage.
144 * enhancement: if the alien symbol "gc_coalesce_string_literals" is
145 set to 1 prior to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, then similar string constants
146 loaded from different fasl files may be collapsed to one object.
147 If the variable is set to 2, then additionally strings which are
148 STRING= in code resulting from COMPILE can be coalesced.
149 For instance, two functions returning the literal string "HI"
150 might return EQ strings after collapsing, which may be undesired
151 in a particular use. The flag pertains to gencgc only.
152 * enhancement: SXHASH values on pathnames are better distributed
153 * bug fix: MAKE-PATHNAME removes empty strings as components of a
154 directory, as is permitted: "Whenever a pathname is constructed
155 the components may be canonicalized if appropriate."
156 * optimization: various printer and FORMAT performance enhancements.
157 * bug fix: GET-FOREGROUND no longer fails in case all other interactive
158 threads exit (lp#1682671, reported by Syll)
159 * bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND always removes the current thread from the
160 list of interactive threads. (lp#1682867, reported by Syll)
162 changes in sbcl-1.3.17 relative to sbcl-1.3.16:
163 * enhancement: memory overhead from the garbage collector's metadata
164 is reduced on 64-bit architectures; no change for 32-bit.
165 * enhancement: further garbage collector speedups affecting
166 pinned objects on conservative backends, and simple-vectors.
167 * enhancement: on Linux a custom handler for SIGSEGV can be called
168 for page faults outside of dynamic space by changing the C symbol
169 "sbcl_fallback_sigsegv_handler".
170 * bug fix: sb-cover does not lose source positions for AND/OR/COND.
171 * bug fix: random disassembler failures. (lp#1527931)
172 * The bundled sb-md5 contrib has been updated to release 2.0.4
173 which is licensed under Creative Commons CC0 per author's statement
174 https://github.com/pmai/md5/commit/fd134e71b71a10ab78905833a7cb9d4d6817c589
175 (Refer to NEWS and COPYING in the contrib/sb-md5 subdirectory)
177 changes in sbcl-1.3.16 relative to sbcl-1.3.15:
178 * optimization: various small tweaks give around 5% faster garbage
180 * bug fix: better detection of when an impossible code path does
181 not need a warning. (lp#1668619)
182 * bug fix: stronger attempts to disable position-independent
183 executable building. (lp#1668986, patch from Mark Wright)
184 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS NIL signalled a condition on Windows.
185 (lp#1674437, reported by Jan Idzikowski)
187 changes in sbcl-1.3.15 relative to sbcl-1.3.14:
188 * minor incompatible change: the reader will when feasible create
189 new symbols using a BASE-STRING for the print name. Additionally,
190 string literals can favor the base-string type if desired, though
191 the default is to always return UTF-32 strings for compatibility.
192 A preference for base-string does not disable reading Unicode.
193 The choice is controlled via (SETF READTABLE-BASE-CHAR-PREFERENCE).
194 If Unicode was disabled at build time, this setting does nothing.
195 * enhancement: SBCL generates more debug information by default.
196 * enhancement: type errors provide context information, such as which
197 variable is being bound, which slot of which structure is being set.
198 * enhancement: if #+immobile-symbols is in build-time *FEATURES* (not
199 enabled by default), then symbols will never be moved in memory
200 except by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE. Immobility has helpful implications for
201 code generation as well as interaction with foreign routines.
202 This feature can only be enabled if #+immobile-space is enabled.
203 * enhancement: undefined function errors can be restarted on x86-64, to
204 either retry calling the function again or call a user supplied function.
205 * enhancement: sb-ext:restrict-compiler-policy accepts an upper bound in
206 addition to a lower bound.
207 * enhancement: #+immobile-code improves the speed of function calling.
208 Some delay may be noticed when redefining an existing function
209 from a saved core file however.
210 * defaults change: sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* default to NIL, due to its
212 * new feature: SB-LINKABLE-RUNTIME, allowing linking with extra object
213 files to help with delivery of executables. (Thanks to François-René
215 * bug fix: data race in GENTEMP fixed - it can no longer return the
216 same interned symbol to multiple threads if called concurrently
217 * bug fix: interrupting LOADing of FASLs does not leave functions without
218 source locations. (lp#540276)
219 * bug fix: DYNAMIC-EXTENT-declared results of NOTINLINE local functions were
220 treated as if they were actually stack allocated (lp#1659964)
221 * bug fix: correctly handle the case of a non-local exit within a function
222 terminating the extent of dynamic-extent, dynamic-bound variables in the
223 presence of multiple-values (lp#1655011)
224 * bug fix: handling of SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS in the interpreters (both
225 sb-eval and sb-fasteval) now actually pins objects on gencgc.
226 * bug fix: AVX registers are preserved during exceptions on x86-64 macOS.
227 * bug fix: (directory "SOMETHING/*/**/MORE") is no longer equivalent to
228 (directory "SOMETHING/**/MORE")
229 * bug fix: better console IO on Windows (lp#1660906)
231 changes in sbcl-1.3.14 relative to sbcl-1.3.13:
232 * minor incompatible change: the SB-PCL walker no longer recognizes
233 macros expanding into a DECLARE expression. This is not a language change,
234 since ANSI forbids such usage (X3J13 issue DECLARE-MACROS:FLUSH).
235 * enhancement: for several macros such as MULTIPLE-VALUE-{BIND,SETQ}, COND,
236 DO{,*,LIST}, {RESTART,HANDLER}-{BIND,CASE}, *CASE, conditions signaled
237 during macroexpansion point to the form that caused the problem more
239 * enhancement: the "--noinform" command-line option inhibits output from
240 save-lisp-and-die in addition to removing the startup banner.
241 * bug fix: PROCESS-KILL failed to return errno if the system call failed
242 * optimization: slightly more comprehensive treatment of the keyword
243 arguments to MAKE-ARRAY in compiler transformations.
245 changes in sbcl-1.3.13 relative to sbcl-1.3.12:
246 * enhancement: SET triggers package locks on undefined variables.
248 * enhancement: new Windows specific option to run-program, :escape-arguments
250 * enhancement: recompiling a MAKE-INSTANCE form with an initarg :INITARG
251 CONSTANT where CONSTANT names a constant variable picks up the new value
252 of CONSTANT in case it has been redefined. (lp#1644944)
253 * optimization: faster TYPEP on undefined at compile-time types and upcoming
254 class definitions. (lp#1082967)
255 * optimization: memory consumption of each STANDARD-OBJECT instance is
256 reduced by 2 words if the compact-instance-header feature is enabled.
257 * optimization: CONDITION instances are quicker to allocate.
258 * optimization: unoptimized calls to FILL on specialized vectors are now
259 just as fast as T vectors.
260 * bug fix: get-timezone returns corret DST on 64-bit Windows. (lp#1641058)
261 * bug fix: cross reference information in fasls is no longer incompatible
262 between different cores (lp#1648186)
264 changes in sbcl-1.3.12 relative to sbcl-1.3.11:
265 * enhancement: on x86-64, compiled functions loaded from fasl files
266 can not be moved, but can be freed, by GC. Additionally, COMPILE will
267 produce immobile code if SB-C::*COMPILE-TO-MEMORY-SPACE* is set to
268 :IMMOBILE. (Caution: the flag is experimental and subject to change.)
269 The benefits are better physical separation of code from data,
270 and potentially easier examination of live images by external tools.
271 * enhancement: the docstring for SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE has been amended to
272 say that the :ROOT-STRUCTURES parameter is not meaningless on gencgc,
273 depending on the platform.
274 * bug fix: calling a named function (e.g. a DEFUN) concurrently with
275 redefining that same function could lead to execution of random bytes.
276 * bug fix: yes-or-no-p accepts formatter functions (lp#1639490)
277 * bug fix: better handling of exceptions on macOS.
279 changes in sbcl-1.3.11 relative to sbcl-1.3.10:
280 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:*INTEXP-MAXIMUM-EXPONENT* is removed.
281 * enhancement: TRACE ... :REPORT {TRACE,NIL} now work as advertised in the
282 documentation string (based on patch by Patrick Stein)
283 * enhancement: support unboxed signed-word structure slots on x86, x86-64
284 and ARM64. (lp#377616)
285 * optimization: faster logical bit-array operations on multidimensional
287 * optimization: better GC performance in the presence of many threads.
288 (patch by Ilya Perminov, lp#1339924)
289 * optimization: multiple-value-call is optimized with multiple argument
290 forms, not just one. (lp#753803)
291 * bug fix: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING returns the number of allocated bytes as a
292 second value as advertised (reported by Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson)
293 * bug fix: when TO-READTABLE is supplied to COPY-READTABLE, it will
294 contain only the macros in FROM-READTABLE and no others. (lp#1631506)
295 * enhancement: gencgc has been modified for x86-64 on Linux and macOS
296 to a support mark-and-sweep as well as the traditional copying strategy.
297 It is conceivable that some applications might be adversely affected.
298 Please see ':immobile-space' in 'base-target-features.lisp-expr'
299 for further details, and possible reasons to disable this feature.
300 * enhancement: x86-64 supports shrinking the fixed overhead in a structure
301 from 2 words to 1 word, reducing memory consumption in applications
302 which create many small structures.
304 changes in sbcl-1.3.10 relative to sbcl-1.3.9:
305 * enhancement: more compact low-level error signaling code
306 * enhancement: more compact encoding of cross-reference information
307 * optimization: faster out of line fixnum-float comparisons.
308 * optimization: filling a known simple-vector with a constant value
309 is about as fast in unoptimized code as in code compiled with (SPEED 3),
310 and the x86-64 implementation is able to use SSE instructions.
311 * bug fix: correctly handle the case of a non-local exit within a function
312 terminating the extent of dynamic-extent functions and variables in the
313 presence of multiple-values (lp#1563127)
314 * bug fix: restore builds on the latest OSX with the latest Xcode
317 changes in sbcl-1.3.9 relative to sbcl-1.3.8:
318 * minor incompatible change: NAMESTRING prefers to return a BASE-STRING
319 instead of (ARRAY CHARACTER (*)) when possible.
320 * enhancement: cached make-instance/allocate-instance constructors can now
321 get garbage collected.
322 * optimization: better performance for some unoptimized operations on
324 * bug fix: using the options :LOCAL-NICKNAMES and :LOCK in the same
325 DEFPACKAGE form no longer signals a bogus error
327 changes in sbcl-1.3.8 relative to sbcl-1.3.7:
328 * minor incompatible change: the system now understands that the CONDITION
329 type is disjoint with many other system types.
330 * minor incompatible change: argument types in condition report functions
331 are now declared (in combination with the above change, this can result in
332 early detection of erroneous code).
333 * enhancement: simple arrays of any rank can be stack-allocated
334 on platforms supporting stack allocation of vectors.
335 * optimization: improved type derivation for FIND, POSITION, COUNT, SEARCH,
336 MISMATCH and other array and sequence functions.
337 * optimization: ALLOCATE-INSTANCE is now as fast as MAKE-INSTANCE.
338 * optimization: more efficient CHANGE-CLASS.
339 * bug fix: versions of getresuid() and getresgid() in SB-POSIX no longer
340 cause memory faults, and should work properly (lp#1603806, reported by
342 * bug fix: handle ENOENT from getprotobyname() (lp#1596043, reported by
345 changes in sbcl-1.3.7 relative to sbcl-1.3.6:
346 * bug fix: preserve the name of the destructive function for the destroyed
347 constant and important result warnings, even when declared NOTINLINE.
348 * optimization: faster operations on list-sets.
349 * optimization: better type derivation of set functions.
351 * optimization: load-time TLS-INDEX assignment, and other
352 microoptimizations, on x86.
358 ** REMOVE, REMOVE-DUPLICATES, DELETE and DELETE-DUPLICATES on lists.
360 changes in sbcl-1.3.6 relative to sbcl-1.3.5:
361 * bug fix: do not insert conditional newlines in print-unreadable-object
362 (lp#1398290). This reverses a change made in lp#488979 which reversed
363 a fix advertised in release 0.8.14 to pass the GCL ANSI Test Suite.
364 * bug fix: constant negative rotations of 32-bit quantities are compiled
365 correctly on x86-64 and arm. (lp#1586614, reported by Guillaume Le
368 changes in sbcl-1.3.5 relative to sbcl-1.3.4:
369 * enhancement: the platform's strtod() is exposed as SB-POSIX:STRTOD
370 * enhancement: speed up debug info creation for highly nested functions.
372 * enhancement: the interleaved structure slot optimization from
373 release 1.2.6 has been ported to all architectures.
374 * enhancement: support run-program I/O redirection into lisp streams on
376 * bug fix: better wording in missed optimization note. (lp#1003265)
377 * bug fix: interpreted (CAS SVREF) was broken
378 * bug fix: support CLISP as build host for ARM (lp#1568256, thanks to Tomas
381 changes in sbcl-1.3.4 relative to sbcl-1.3.3:
382 * enhancement: who-sets and who-references work on DEFGLOBAL. (lp#1552997)
383 * enhancement: CONSTANTP understands backquote.
384 e.g. (CONSTANTP '`(0 (,CHAR-CODE-LIMIT))) => T
385 * optimization: improvements to sequence functions: CONCATENATE, SUBSTITUTE,
387 * bug fix: SB-EVAL does not signal an error for (THE KEYWORD :FOO)
388 * bug fix: a DEFTYPE name that is redefined into a DEFSTRUCT name
389 is less likely to cause confusion in the compiler.
390 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION works as intended for classes with non-standard
392 * bug fix: (TYPEP <extended-sequence> <extended-sequence-class>) no longer
393 returns NIL in certain situations
394 * bug fix: MAKE-SEQUENCE, MAP, CONCATENATE and MERGE accept class objects as
396 * bug fix: MAKE-SEQUENCE, MAP, CONCATENATE and MERGE expand DEFTYPEs in
399 changes in sbcl-1.3.3 relative to sbcl-1.3.2:
400 * enhancement: warn about argument mismatch for functions passed as
401 arguments to other functions (e.g. REDUCE, MAP) at compile-time.
402 * optimization: functions accepting other functions (e.g. REDUCE, FIND) can
403 now be constant-folded if all function arguments are declared as foldable.
404 * optimization: improved logical operations on integers of unknown type.
405 * bug fix: exception handling no longer leaks memory on OS X. (lp#326238)
407 changes in sbcl-1.3.2 relative to sbcl-1.3.1:
408 * enhancement: {READ,WRITE}-SEQUENCE are much faster for some combinations
409 of short sequences and stream types
410 * enhancement: MAKE-LIST's result can be stack-allocated on x86-64
411 * bug fix: WRITE-SEQUENCE no longer fails to write lists containing integers
413 * bug fix: LOGTEST (and hence ODDP) no longer conses when given fixnum
414 arguments and small bit positions. (lp#1277690)
415 * bug fix: READ-FROM-STRING compiler-macro does not permute its arguments
416 * bug fix: DEFUN of a function name that collides with a system-generated
417 structure accessor does not confuse the runtime. (lp#540063)
418 * bug fix: heap corruption from miscompiled RESTART-BIND. (lp#1530390)
420 changes in sbcl-1.3.1 relative to sbcl-1.3.0:
421 * enhancement: SB-THREAD support for ARM64.
422 * enhancement: compiling an out-of-line DEFSTRUCT constructor call
423 will warn if a defaulted value is incompatible with its slot type.
424 * enhancement: a local INLINE declaration on a structure constructor
425 will work as intended, subject to any other factors that inhibit
426 inlining, even if the DEFSTRUCT was not itself within a global
427 INLINE proclamation for the named constructor
428 * enhancement: SB-EXT:DYNAMIC-SPACE-SIZE is now defined for cheneygc.
429 * enhancement: x86[-64] platforms support SB-EXT:CAS on structure slots
431 * enhancement: the interleaved structure slot optimization from
432 release 1.2.6 has been ported to 32-bit x86, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM64.
433 * enhancement: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD signals a proper error when an attempt
434 is made to join the current thread
435 * bug fix: NTH-VALUE does not cause stack overflow. (lp#1511419)
436 * bug fix: structure constructor type checking is better. (lp#1508735)
437 * bug fix: supplied-p variables for unused optional or keyword variables no
438 longer confuse SB-DI:PARSE-COMPILED-DEBUG-FUN-LAMBDA-LIST (and thus the
439 backtrace machinery) (lp#1498644)
440 * bug fix: Backtrace correctly handles undefined-function frames on MIPS.
441 * bug fix: WITH-FLOAT-TRAPS-MASKED correctly clears accrued traps on MIPS
442 (fixes issues with floating-point type derivation in the compiler).
443 * bug fix: FLOAT-NAN-P and FLOAT-TRAPPING-NAN-P now work correctly on MIPS
445 * bug fix: MIPS context register access now masks to 32 bits (fixing issues
446 parsing negative-fixnum values for internal-error arguments and escaped
447 debug variables on 64-bit CPUs).
448 * bug fix: (SETF SAP-REF-DOUBLE) with constant offset on big-endian MIPS
450 * bug fix: Callback parameter (argument) handling on MIPS is now vastly
452 * bug fix: %DECREMENT-SEMAPHORE adjusts the remaining timeout after a
455 changes in sbcl-1.3.0 relative to sbcl-1.2.16:
456 * minor incompatible change: the environment passed to a macro/setf/deftype
457 expander is not always an object of type SB-KERNEL:LEXENV.
458 It can be nil, as is permissible by the standard.
459 * enhancement: ported to ARM64 Linux.
460 * enhancement: a new interpreter is included which has many benefits
461 over sb-eval. It is disabled by default. See src/interpreter/README
462 for instructions to enable it, and further details.
463 * bug fix: calling COMPILE when SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* was :INTERPRET
464 would fail to perform "normal semantic processing such as macro expansion"
465 as stipulated by X3J13 issue LOAD-TIME-EVAL.
466 * bug fix: SB-UNICODE:CONFUSABLE-P no longer treats "<" and the empty
467 string as confusable. (lp#1504739)
468 * bug fix: (ASSERT (COMPUTE-IT ...)) would expand incorrectly
469 if COMPUTE-IT was a local macro that shadowed a global function.
470 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:CFSETISPEED and SB-POSIX:CFSETOSPEED now work properly
471 on platforms that use only the minimum specified set of fields in struct
472 termios (verified on Linux, still known not to work on FreeBSD and NetBSD,
473 very probably others). (partial fix for lp#1500951)
475 changes in sbcl-1.2.16 relative to sbcl-1.2.15:
476 * enhancement: by default, timers with a repeat interval do not "catch up"
477 by repeatedly calling their function after a clock discontinuity such as a
478 suspend and resume cycle
479 * bug fix: correctly restore multiple values on the stack in the presence of
480 alien calls. (lp#1489590)
481 * bug fix: MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM enforces that :ELEMENT-TYPE
482 is a subtype of CHARACTER.
483 * bug fix: an EQL method specializer no longer causes garbage retention
484 if there are no extant methods using the specializer. (lp#492851)
486 changes in sbcl-1.2.15 relative to sbcl-1.2.14:
487 * new feature: DEPRECATION declaration for functions, variables and types
488 causes {EARLY,LATE,FINAL}-DEPRECATION-WARNING to be signaled when subject
489 of the declaration is used. Integrated with DESCRIBE, DOCUMENTATION and
490 SB-CLTL2:{VARIABLE,FUNCTION}-INFORMATION. Documented in the "Deprecation"
491 section of the manual.
492 * enhancement: ASDF updated to 3.1.5. (lp#1476867)
493 * enhancement: definitions within PROGN get proper source locations when
494 compiled (needs latest Slime to take advantage of this). (lp#1473147)
495 * enhancement: source locations for DEFCLASS slots now point directly to the
496 slot definitions, not the whole DEFCLASS form.
497 * bug fix: better source location in the presence of quoted forms.
499 * bug fix: better source locations inside backqoute. (lp#1361502)
500 * bug fix: HANDLER-BIND requires that the handler-function be
501 a function designator at the time of binding establishment. (lp#1480679)
502 * bug fix: inlined functions surrounded by nested macrolets are properly
505 changes in sbcl-1.2.14 relative to sbcl-1.2.13:
506 * minor incompatible change: The name of a compiled anonymous lambda
507 as returned by the third value of FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION can have
508 a lambda-list-like list following the introductory LAMBDA that is not
509 in general a syntactically valid lambda list. Specifically, it won't
510 retain default values, supplied-p variables, or &KEY or &AUX bindings.
511 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND has been totally reimplemented from
512 scratch to address a handful of performance and correctness issues.
513 Some minor behavioral differences exist regarding order of evaluation
514 of default forms for unsupplied &OPTIONAL and &KEY arguments
515 when nested destructuring patterns are involved.
516 (lp#707556, lp#707573, lp#707578, lp#708051)
517 * enhancement: DEFCONSTANT and DEFSTRUCT respect package locks. (lp#1186238,
519 * enhancement: sb-unicode:normalize-string has a new optional argument,
520 FILTER, a callback which controls which decomposed characters are
521 collected. Useful for stripping away diacritics more efficiently.
522 * bug fix: (TYPE-OF ARRAY) for a non-simple array is subject to change
523 after a call of ADJUST-ARRAY. (lp#1333731)
524 * bug fix: Dynamic-extent allocation with a loop between allocating a value
525 and the start of its environment no longer discards the allocated data
526 when the loop is taken. (lp#1472785)
527 * bug fix: Variable-reference elimination no longer generates incorrect code
528 under certain circumstances. (lp#1446891)
529 * bug fix: variables with EQL types are no longer treated as constants by
530 VOPs, which caused problems with closures being allocated for such
531 variables, but they remained unused. (lp#1390149)
532 * bug fix: Windows installer generates registry key name
533 correctly. (lp#1476447)
535 changes in sbcl-1.2.13 relative to sbcl-1.2.12:
536 * incompatible change: on success, TRY-SEMAPHORE and WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE
538 * enhancement: WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE accepts a decrement parameter
539 * enhancement: JOIN-THREAD allows distinguishing timeout vs. abort in all
541 * enhancement: On Windows DBG_PRINTEXCEPTION_C is handled and its message is
542 printed. (lp#1437947)
543 * bug-fix: TRUENAME works properly on broken symlinks presented as
544 directories. (lp#1400003)
545 * bug fix: Inlined DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD don't interfere with left-to-right
546 order of argument evaluation. (lp#1458190)
547 * bug fix: (SETF (LDB (BYTE 1 2 JUNK) X) 0) is rightly rejected.
548 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists should not permit argument destructuring.
549 * bug fix: calls to (SETF SLOT-VALUE) on a missing slot would in certain
550 situations incorrectly return the result of a SLOT-MISSING method
551 instead of always returning the new value. (lp#1460381)
552 * bug fix: a DEFMACRO occurring not at toplevel and capturing parts of
553 its lexical environment (thus being a closure) caused expressions
554 involving the macro name to cause corruption in the pretty-printer
555 due to faulty introspection of the lambda list of a closure.
556 * bug fix: out of line MAP/MAP-INTO check that the results produced by the
557 function are of the matching sequence type. (lp#1459581)
558 * bug fix: pretty-printing of '(LET `((,X ,Y)) :B) is handled correctly.
560 changes in sbcl-1.2.12 relative to sbcl-1.2.11:
561 * minor incompatible change: the SB-C::*POLICY* variable is no longer
562 a list. Code which manipulated it as such (including but not limited
563 to non-bundled releases of ASDF) will need to be revised.
564 * enhancement: The input stream for COMPILE-FILE implements
566 * enhancement: EVAL errors that occur by way of LOAD report the starting
567 line and column number of the erring toplevel form. (lp#565247)
568 * optimization: better MAP and MAP-INTO on known vector result types.
569 * bug fix: Read/modify/write macros accessing a place which is a
570 composition of CAR+CDR operations, such as (SHIFTF (CADR X) (ELT V 0)),
571 do not access subforms more than once. (lp#1450968)
572 * bug fix: short form of DEFSETF no longer allows trailing junk.
573 * bug fix: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO respects the provisions of CLHS 5.1.3
574 regarding argument evaluation order. (lp#1452539)
575 * bug fix: POP works as specified in CLHS if the setter for its
576 argument has a side-effect on the existing CAR value. (lp#1454021)
577 * bug fix: Reading "#()" with a positive numeric argument signals a
578 reader error. As specified, reading "#1()" has undefined consequences,
579 so correct portable code should be indifferent to this. (lp#1252100)
580 * bug fix: Malformed reader conditionals such as "(#-no-such-feature)"
581 and "(#+sbcl)" no longer parse as NIL. (lp#1454400)
583 changes in sbcl-1.2.11 relative to sbcl-1.2.10:
584 * enhancement: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH will warn when given an expression in
585 which any part is unrecognizable as a legal type-specifier.
586 The dispatch table will be altered, but the new entry is disabled.
587 Subsequent type-defining forms will cause pprint-dispatch tables to
588 re-examine whether any disabled entries should be enabled. (lp#1429520)
589 * enhancement: Loading code containing calls to a deprecated function will,
590 under most circumstances, signal warnings similar to compiling such code.
591 The usual caveat holds about not detecting calls through a computed name,
592 as in (funcall (intern "DEPRECATED-FUN" "SB-EXT")).
593 * enhancement: (SB-EXT:COMPILE-FILE-LINE) is a new macro that expands
594 to a constant (VALUES integer integer) indicating the source line/column
595 from which it was read, intended for logging Lisp runtime errors in
596 a style similar to that afforded by the C preprocessor __LINE__ macro.
597 Similarly (SB-EXT:COMPILE-FILE-POSITION) returns a position in characters.
598 * enhancement: improved source locations for VOPs, alien types and
600 * bug fix: functions in :FINAL deprecation have the correct docstring.
601 No visible change, as no such functions presently exist. (lp#1439151)
602 * bug fix: (SETF (FDEFINITION this) (FDEFINITION OTHER)) signals an error
603 if OTHER names either a macro or special-operator. (lp#1439921)
605 changes in sbcl-1.2.10 relative to sbcl-1.2.9:
606 * minor incompatible change: all SOCKINT::WIN32-* functions have been
607 deprecated with EARLY deprecation state
608 * minor incompatible change: performing introspection via the system-internal
609 SB-INT:INFO function could expose that :TYPE :TRANSLATOR is not necessarily
610 a function, as it always was before. (Affects swank-fancy-inspector)
611 * enhancement: The value of SXHASH on bit-vectors of length equal to the
612 word size now depends on the vector's contents instead of being constant;
613 its value on bit-vectors of length divisible by the word size now depends
614 also on the contents of the vector's last word.
615 * bug-fix: sb-bsd-sockets on win32 uses proper C function declarations.
617 * bug fix: A new dead code elimination phase removes dead code loops
618 that confuse stack analysis. (lp#1255782, lp#308914)
619 * bug fix: A toplevel form which was simple enough to bypass the main
620 compiler in COMPILE-FILE, and which contained an empty SETQ or PROGN
621 would produce an invalid fasl file. (lp#1427050)
622 * bug fix: The compiler no longer signals an internal error when
623 encountering invalid FUNCTION forms like (function 1)
624 * bug fix: express proper dependencies in the ASDF contrib, to support
625 systems where make runs in parallel. (lp#1434768; thanks to Nikhil
628 changes in sbcl-1.2.9 relative to sbcl-1.2.8:
629 * minor incompatible change and bug fix: unboxed numeric constants
630 on x86oids are arranged in memory differently, and the disassembler
631 does not show them separately in DISASSEMBLE, but does
632 if DISASSEMBLE-CODE-COMPONENT is used. (lp#1421987)
633 * optimization: The compiler's treatment of type specifiers makes
634 it slightly faster and more memory-efficient. Portable code
635 should be indifferent to this change, however, users of
636 SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE might notice that (MEMBER T NIL)
637 and (MEMBER NIL T) are both internally collapsed to the former,
638 so that the latter can never be obtained as part of an FTYPE.
639 * optimization: a TYPEP call in which the second argument is not a
640 QUOTE form but nevertheless recognized as a compile-time constant
641 might open-code the test. One scenario for this involves backquote,
642 such as (TYPEP x `(my-type ,some-arg)). Code which relied upon
643 deferring until runtime should declare (NOTINLINE TYPEP).
644 [Due to the sematic constraints of DEFTYPE etc in in CLHS 3.2.2.3,
645 code requiring delayed evaluation could be unportable though.]
646 * enhancement: unused variables at the top-level are now reported.
648 * bug fix: DEFCLASS handles cyclic {super,meta}class relations better
650 * bug fix: compiler no longer signals an error when compiling certain
651 function calls. (lp#1416704, lp#404441, lp#1417822, lp#1234919)
652 * bug fix: compiler doesn't stumble on a LOGIOR transform. (lp#1389433)
653 * bug fix: more robust debugger and backtraces. (lp#1413850, lp#1099500,
654 lp#1412881, lp#945261, lp#1419205, lp#1409402)
655 * bug fix: files larger than 4GB can now be compiled.
656 * bug fix: x86 truncated results from 64-bit foreign functions to 32 bits.
657 * bug fix: file-position didn't work on large files on win32. (lp#1271545)
658 * bug fix: callbacks from foreign threads can work without enabling
660 * bug fix: sb-introspect:function-lambda-list works properly on interpeted
662 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY properly handles non-adjustable arrays. (lp#886418)
663 * bug fix: compiler no longer fails to dump a multidimensional array
664 constant involving a circular reference to itself
665 * bug fix: conditional and nested DX allocation no longer confuse the
666 compiler in STACK analysis. (lp#1044465)
667 * bug fix: sb-rotate-byte constant folding bug fixed. (lp#1423682)
669 changes in sbcl-1.2.8 relative to sbcl-1.2.7:
670 * enhancement: better error and warning messages. (lp#1314767, lp#736383)
671 * enhancement: backtrace for invalid argument count produces the exact
672 supplied arguments including the extra ones, on x86, x86-64 and ARM.
673 * enhancement: a STYLE-WARNING is signaled for DEFSTRUCT accessors which
674 are used before the structure is defined; similarly for the predicate.
675 * optimization: FORMAT NIL with only ~a and string arguments is transformed
677 * optimization: POSITION and FIND when inlined into code that is compiled
678 with qualities of safety < 2 and speed > space will no longer signal
679 an error on circular lists, but will potentially loop forever if given
680 no :END constraint. As was always the case, calls that are not inlined
681 are safe regardless of lexical policy.
682 * bug fix: CLOS methods compiled with (OPTIMIZE (DEBUG 0))
683 no longer cause debugger failure when printing a backtrace
684 * bug fix: more resilience to deleted code. (lp#1308328, lp#1390544)
685 * bug fix: the CLHS example of MAKE-LOAD-FORM involving TREE-WITH-PARENT
686 did not work, and now it does.
688 changes in sbcl-1.2.7 relative to sbcl-1.2.6:
689 * optimization: returning constant values refers to preboxed constants
690 more reliably. (lp#1398785)
691 * enhancement: a STYLE-WARNING is produced if a compiler-macro is defined
692 for a function after at least one ordinary (not inlined) call to that
693 function was compiled, indicating a likely compilation order problem.
694 Likewise a warning ensues if a call is compiled to a function
695 that is subsequently proclaimed INLINE.
696 * enhancement: always lose() when something goes wrong while saving a core
697 (instead of just printing an error on stderr in some situations).
698 * enhancement: frames in the debugger are now restartable by default.
699 * bug fix: restore error handling on Windows x86.
700 * bug fix: MAKE-SEQUENCE detects type errors in its :INITIAL-ELEMENT
701 at compile-time when possible. (lp#330299)
702 * bug fix: parsing of malformed type specifiers no longer results
703 in a memory-fault-error.
704 * bug fix: LOOP properly destructures nested lists in WITH.
705 * bug fix: MACROEXPANDing the redefinition of an alien structure type no
706 longer signals the wrong error.
707 * bug fix: PROGV doesn't get confused by forced DEBUG 3 (lp#1405456).
709 changes in sbcl-1.2.6 relative to sbcl-1.2.5:
710 * enhancement: SERVE-EVENTS uses the poll() system call in lieu of
711 select() if the OS has the former. Previously poll() was used
712 only if waiting on exactly one file descriptor.
713 * enhancement: efficiency of access to untagged structure slots is improved
714 on x86-64, and the order of slots in memory is exactly as specified by
715 defstruct, simplifying use of structures as arguments to foreign calls.
716 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:ARG now works in all TRACE options which evaluate forms.
718 * bug fix: GC memory corruption during internal memory handling.
719 * bug fix: duplicate effective-slot-definition objects as compared
720 by EQ on name could be present in CLASS-SLOTS of a class whose
721 metaclass was structure-class or condition-class. (lp#1049423)
722 * bug fix: HANDLER-BIND with empty bindings works again; regression in
724 * bug fix: ATOMIC-INCF works on structure slots in interpreted code.
726 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY properly handles character types like (eql #\a) and
727 (member #\a #\c). (lp#1392068)
728 * bug fix: READ sometimes accidentally preserved a whitespace character
729 after a token when it should not have. (lp#327790)
731 changes in sbcl-1.2.5 relative to sbcl-1.2.4:
732 * enhancement: sb-bsd-sockets now has basic support for IPv6
733 * enhancement: An sb-unicode package has been added, containing
734 many functions related to handling Unicode text
735 * enhancement: The reader now normalizes symbols to Normalization
736 Form KC (NFKC). This behavior can be disabled with
737 SB-EXT:READTABLE-NORMALIZATION
738 * enhancement: a style-warning is signaled if OPTIMIZE declarations
739 multiply specify a quality with differing values. (lp#310267)
740 * bug fix: conservatively pointed to pages wipe out unused dwords so
741 that they cannot act as false roots in turn.
742 * bug fix: the walker's handling of lexical variable and symbol-macro
743 bindings is improved (lp#375326, lp#1368305)
744 * bug fix: HANDLER-{BIND,CASE} no longer drop into ldb when a clause
745 contains an undefined condition type; regression in 1.1.19 (lp#1378939)
746 * bug fix: in interpreted code, inequality predicates did not type-check
747 arguments that weren't examined, and a 1-argument use of MIN or MAX
748 accepted a complex number. (lp#1373702)
749 * bug fix: APROPOS and APROPOS-LIST handle inherited symbols correctly.
750 (lp#1364413, thanks to Zach Beane)
752 changes in sbcl-1.2.4 relative to sbcl-1.2.3:
753 * enhancement: the sequence functions MAP, CONCATENATE and MERGE now call
754 the new generic functions SEQUENCE:MAP, SEQUENCE:CONCATENATE and
755 SEQUENCE:MERGE respectively when the specified result type designates an
757 * bug fix: Wrong binding order of supplied-p parameters in macro lambda
759 * bug fix: VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS returns T when the superclass is the
760 universal superclass (lp#1332983)
761 * bug fix: reading an uninterned symbol whose print name has the
762 syntax of an integer signals an error. (lp#310062)
763 * bug fix: the walker is less likely to be confused when walking LET* forms
764 with special bindings and use of those bindings and others of the same
766 * bug fix: a rare bug affecting 32-bit platforms resulting in a
767 fatal condition with the message "Globaldb rehash failure" has been fixed.
769 changes in sbcl-1.2.3 relative to sbcl-1.2.2:
770 * enhancement: DOCUMENTATION works on instances of
771 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS
772 * enhancement: ASSERT reports arguments of calls to lexical functions in
773 additional to global functions.
774 * enhancement: ASDF updated to 3.1.3
775 * enhancement: UIOP can be loaded without ASDF.
776 * bug fix: some methods on CHANGE-CLASS did not finalize the new class
777 before accessing its class-precedence list.
778 * bug fix: CHANGE-CLASS no longer fails on unbound slots in the source
780 * bug fix: CHANGE-CLASS signals an appropriate error when the destination
781 class is a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS.
782 * bug fix: CHANGE-CLASS no longer signals bogus TYPE-ERRORs for slots for
783 which initargs have been supplied.
784 * bug fix: saving cores on ARM was broken since the introduction of GENCGC.
786 * bug fix: macroexpanding a backquoted expression involving ",."
787 outside of the compiler failed. (lp#1354623)
789 changes in sbcl-1.2.2 relative to sbcl-1.2.1:
790 * incompatible change: the #\` ("backquote") reader macro was reimplemented
791 to support robust pretty-printing. Reading a form involving #\` produces
792 an invocation of the QUASIQUOTE ordinary macro which may contain subforms
793 that are not lists. Code that unportably attempts operations on
794 un-evaluated forms resulting therefrom, e.g.
795 (SUBST a b (read-from-string "`(x (,y))"))
796 might generate incorrect results and/or errors.
797 * enhancement: support for GNU/kFreeBSD x86.
798 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF and ATOMIC-DECF can operate on (CAR x), (CDR x)
799 and DEFGLOBAL variables of type fixnum.
800 * enhancement: arithmetic constant reduction is now performed on defconstant
801 constants too. (lp#1337069).
802 * bug fix: certain ftype proclamations containing &optional t &rest t no
803 longer cause subsequent definitions to signal bogus style-warnings.
804 * bug fix: #\Bell and #\Bel now read to different characters. (lp#1319452).
805 * bug fix: CAS SYMBOL-VALUE on locally special variables didn't work.
808 changes in sbcl-1.2.1 relative to sbcl-1.2.0:
809 * enhancement: GENCGC is enabled on ARM.
810 * enhancement: better error reporting for invalid calls to local functions.
811 * enhancement: support for GNU/kFreeBSD distributions. (lp#1079954, thanks
813 * enhancement: experimental support for threads on NetBSD/x86-64. (thanks
815 * enhancement: support for DragonFly BSD. (lp#1292845, thanks to Vasily
817 * bug fix: TYPE-OF must not return AND/OR/NOT expressions.
819 * bug fix: accessing NIL arrays stopped producing errors. (lp#1311421)
820 * bug fix: DISASSEMBLE no longer prints unwanted stuff. (lp#1251861)
821 * bug fix: compiling SVREF on unknown types no longer produces scary errors.
823 * bug fix: assorted LOOP fixes and enhancements. (lp#645534, lp#1322923,
824 lp#700538, lp#613876, lp#695286, lp#798388)
825 * bug fix: silence compiler notes from the SEARCH transform. (lp#1071310)
826 * bug fix: array type intersection handles T and unknown element types
827 correctly. (lp#1258716)
828 * bug fix: fix a corner case in array type unparsing that would result in
829 misleading translations from our internal type representation.
830 * bug fix: array-rank now sees through union and intersection types.
832 * bug fix: when DECLARE expressions are in the wrong place, be careful not
833 to attempt to evaluate the subforms. (lp#573747; thanks to Roman
835 * bug fix: misplaced and missing declarations in DEFTRANSFORM. (lp#1066451)
836 * bug fix: FBOUNDP returned NIL for a class of incorrect function names
837 instead of signaling an error. (lp#1095483)
838 * bug fix: fix a compile-time AVER in regalloc: lifetime analysis
839 used to (rarely) introduce duplicate conflict markers in a single
840 TN/block pair. (lp#1327008)
842 changes in sbcl-1.2.0 relative to sbcl-1.1.18:
843 * bug fix: read-time-eval backquote context mixup. (lp#1321047)
844 * enhancement: when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE fails due multiple threads, the
845 report of the signaled conditions lists currently running threads.
846 * enhancement: ported to ARM linux.
847 * enhancement: sb-gmp contrib has been updated. (lp#1305266)
848 * enhancement: new contrib sb-mpfr by Stephan Frank.
849 * bug fix: MAKE-SEQUENCE works with sequence types defined via DEFTYPE
850 (lp#1315846, thanks to Mark Cox)
851 * bug fix: SET-[DISPATCH-]MACRO-CHARACTER should coerce a symbolic
852 function-designator to a function only as needed. (lp#1012335)
853 * bug fix: remove references to asdf-install from the manual. (lp#1207544,
854 thanks to Thomas Hlavaty)
855 * bug fix: handle --without-xxx options to make.sh more carefully.
856 (lp#1246665, thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
857 * bug fix: prevent maybe-delete-exit from doing semantically broken things
858 with local exits. (lp#309099, lp#518099, lp#533930)
859 * bug fix: attempts to subclass BUILT-IN-CLASSes signal errors, as required
862 changes in sbcl-1.1.18 relative to sbcl-1.1.17:
863 * optimization: COERCE is now more effecient for more cases when the type is
864 known at compile-time.
866 * bug fix: correctly inherit condition initforms. (lp#1300904)
867 * bug fix: properly pprint literal functions inside nested lists.
869 * bug fix: more-correctly handle array-type unity (broken for ages, causing
870 compilation problems since 1.1.13.x due to smarter TYPEP type propagation,
871 reported by jasom in #lisp).
873 changes in sbcl-1.1.17 relative to sbcl-1.1.16:
874 * enhancement: printing backtraces respects
875 SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* when printing call arguments
877 * optimization: defstruct out-of-line accessor are now as fast as inlined.
879 * bug fix: INVOKE-RESTART-INTERACTIVELY no longer refuses to invoke RESTART
880 instances with a test-function (reported by Vivitron in #sbcl)
881 * bug fix: STREAM-ERROR-POSITION-INFO fails in fewer situations (lp#1264902)
882 * bug fix: Change COND error message (lp#1254511)
883 * bug fix: LOAD is no longer confused when called on a directory.
885 * bug fix: MAKE-CONDITION reports names of missing condition classes
886 properly (lp#1199223)
887 * bug fix: restore building with clang. (lp#1293643)
888 * bug fix: restore building on SPARC (broken since 1.1.15).
889 * bug fix: improved FreeBSD support.
890 * bug fix: PPC floating point conversion corrupted stack.
892 changes in sbcl-1.1.16 relative to sbcl-1.1.15:
893 * minor incompatible change: improve read/print consistency for pathnames on
894 Win32, by using the circumflex character #\^ as the escape character.
896 * enhancement: SB-EXT:DEFINE-LOAD-TIME-GLOBAL. (lp#1253688)
897 * enhancement: Loading fasls with symbols from an undefined package includes
898 the name of the symbol in the error message.
899 * bug fix: problems when redefining classes and doing TYPEP on classes
900 concurrently. (lp#1272742)
901 * bug fixes to the x86-64 XCHG instruction:
902 ** it was misencoded when used with RAX, R8-R15 registers. (reported by
904 ** it was misencoded when used to exchange EAX with itself.
905 ** the disassembler wrongly printed XCHG RAX, R8 and the corresponding
906 32- and 16-bit variations as NOP.
907 * bug fix: the disassembler outputs source annotations in the right place
908 and no longer randomly drops some of them. (lp#1249205)
909 * bug fix: fix commutative-arg-swap from introducing undumpable structures
910 into code, prevent code with errors from being compiled. (lp#1276282)
911 * bug fix: pathnames with :back in their directory component are succeffully
913 * bug fix: the deterministic profiler now uses ENCAPSULATE functionality to
914 wrap functions around. (lp#309086)
916 changes in sbcl-1.1.15 relative to sbcl-1.1.14:
917 * new feature: the iterative spilling/coloring register allocator developed
918 by Alexandra Barchunova during Google Summer of Code 2013 is now merged
919 in. By default, it only activates for functions that optimize with
920 (speed 3) and (> speed compilation-speed), but setting
921 sb-regalloc:*register-allocation-method* to :iterative forces its
922 execution. The previous behaviour can be obtained by instead setting that
923 variable to :greedy. Thanks again to Google for their support, and, more
924 crucially, to Alexandra Barchunova for her hard work.
925 * optimization: make-array with known element-type and unknown dimensions is
927 * optimization: make-array with unknown element-type is faster as well.
929 * enhancement: sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die on Windows now accepts
930 :application-type argument, which can be :console or :gui. :gui allows
931 having GUI applications without an automatically appearing console window.
932 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms:
933 conservative roots must be valid-looking tagged pointers or point
934 within a code object, not merely point to within the allocated part
935 of a page, in order to pin a page.
936 * enhancement: support for "Mac Roman" external format.
937 * enhancement: encapsulation of named generic functions now happens without
938 altering the identity of the function bound to the name.
939 * bug fix: Windows applications without the console window no longer misbehave.
940 (patch by Wilfredo Velazquez, lp#1256034).
941 * bug fix: modular arithmetic optimizations do not stumble on dead branches
942 with bad constants. (reported by Douglas Katzman)
943 * bug fix: CLISP can be used again as a cross-compilation host.
944 (Thanks to Vasily Postnicov, lp#1261451)
945 * bug fix: run-program crashed with :directory nil. (lp#1265077)
947 changes in sbcl-1.1.14 relative to sbcl-1.1.13:
948 * optimization: complicated TYPEP tests are less opaque to the type
949 propagation pass. (lp#1229340)
950 * optimization: [N]BUTLAST perform a single pass over the list. (lp#1245697)
951 * optimization: EQUALP on structures with raw slots (double-float/complex)
952 no longer conses and is faster.
953 * optimization: RESTART-CASE expands to more compact code.
954 Thanks to Jan Moringen. (lp#1249055)
955 * enhancement: Top-level defmethod without defgeneric no longer causes
956 undefined-function warnings in subsequent forms. (lp#503095)
957 * enhancement: Better error messages for system errors on Windows.
958 * enhancement: run-sbcl.sh is usefully handled by rlwrap. Thanks to William
959 Cushing. (lp#1249183)
960 * enhancement: new function SB-EXT:ASSERT-VERSION->= accepts a version
961 specification (multiple integer arguments) and signals a continuable error
962 if the current SBCL version is lower (older) than the specification.
964 * enhancement: better ARRAY-RANK result derivation. (lp#1252108)
965 * bug fix: EQUALP now compares correctly structures with raw slots larger
967 * bug fix: contribs couldn't be built on Windows with MinGW.
968 * bug fix: Better pathname handling on Windows. (lp#922117)
969 * bug fix: OPEN reports a more meaningful error when an existing file is
970 opened for output with :if-exists :new-version. Thanks to Philip
971 Munksgaard. (lp#455381)
972 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCTs with NIL as a slot name no longer cause strange
973 CLOS-related errors. (lp#633911)
974 * bug fix: GC deadlocks caused by concurrent consing on Windows.
976 changes in sbcl-1.1.13 relative to sbcl-1.1.12:
977 * optimization: better distribution of SXHASH over small conses of related
979 * other improvements to SXHASH:
980 ** use the whole of the positive-fixnum range for SXHASH of fixnums
981 * enhancement: The error message when calling an undefined alien function
982 includes the name of the function on x86-64.
983 * enhancement: sb-ext:run-program now supports :environment on Windows.
984 * enhancement: ASDF is no longer required to load contribs at runtime.
986 * enhancement: when called with a symbol, FIND-RESTART no longer calls
987 COMPUTE-RESTARTS, making it faster and cons less (lp#769615)
988 * enhancement: FIND-RESTART and COMPUTE-RESTARTS handle huge restart
989 clusters better in some cases
990 * enhancement: SOME/ANY/other quantification higher-order functions no
991 longer cons. (lp#1070635)
992 * bug fix: forward references to classes in fasls can now be loaded.
994 * bug fix: don't warn on a interpreted->compiled function redefinition
995 from the same location. (patch by Douglas Katzman, lp#1042405)
996 * bug fix: Create vectors of proper internal length when reading literal
997 vectors from FASLs. (Reported by Jan Moringen)
998 * bug fix: COMPILE can now successfully compile setf functions.
999 (Reported by Douglas Katzman)
1000 * bug fix: run-program performs more correct escaping of arguments on
1001 Windows. (lp#1239242)
1002 * bug fix: function-lambda-expression on generic functions returns the
1004 * bug fix: (the [type] [constant]) now warns when [constant] matches
1005 [type] except for the number of values. (Reported by Nathan Trapuzzano
1007 * bug fix: signal errors in required cases of slot-definition initialization
1008 protocol. (lp#309072)
1009 * bug fix: run-sbcl.sh works better in the presence of symlinks on OS X.
1010 (thanks to Stelian Ionescu, lp#1242643)
1011 * bug fix: when given a restart object, FIND-RESTART checks whether the
1012 restart is active and, when a condition is supplied, whether the restart
1013 is associated to a different condition (lp#774410)
1015 changes in sbcl-1.1.12 relative to sbcl-1.1.11:
1016 * enhancement: Add sb-bsd-sockets:socket-shutdown, for calling
1017 shutdown(3). (thanks to Jan Moringen, lp#1207483)
1018 * enhancement: document extensible sequences. (thanks to Jan Moringen,
1020 * optimization: EQUAL and EQUALP transforms are smarter.
1021 (thanks to Elias Martenson, lp#1220084)
1022 * optimization: CHAR-EQUAL is faster for constant and base-char arguments.
1023 * bug fix: probe-file now can access symlinks to pipes and sockets in
1024 /proc/pid/fd on Linux. (reported by Eric Schulte)
1025 * bug fix: SBCL can now be built on Solaris x86-64.
1026 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions do not persist on Solaris anymore.
1027 * bug fix: (setf . a) is pprinted correctly (reported by Douglas Katzman).
1028 * bug fix: handle compiler-error in LOAD when it's not run from inside EVAL.
1030 * bug fix: SB-GMP:MPZ-POW no longer segfaults given a non-bignum base.
1031 (thanks to Stephan Frank)
1032 * bug fix: space allocation of result bignums in SB-GMP is more accurate.
1033 (thanks to Stephan Frank, lp#1206191)
1034 * bug fix: sb-safepoint can now reliably handle signal interruptions of
1035 foreign code. (lp#1133018)
1036 * bug fix: the compiler-macro for MAKE-INSTANCE when emitting "fallback"
1037 constructors no longer fails to merge actual and default initargs
1038 (thanks to Jan Moringen, lp#1179858)
1039 * bug fix: the compiler-macro for MAKE-INSTANCE when emitting "fallback"
1040 constructors handles non-KEYWORD initialization arguments more correctly.
1041 * bug fix: loading the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contributed module no longer
1042 clobbers FILE-NAMESTRING. (thanks to Anton Kovalenko, lp#884603)
1043 * bug fix: class definitions with CPLs inconsistent with their metaclasses
1044 are less likely to destroy the object system's integrity. (lp#309076)
1045 * bug fix: restart clause parsing in RESTART-CASE is more in line with the
1046 standard. (lp#1203585, thanks to Jan Moringen)
1047 * bug fix: silence a note from RESTART-CASE under high-SPEED optimization
1048 settings. (lp#1023721)
1049 * bug fix: getting the order of arguments to
1050 SB-MOP:SET-FUNCALLABLE-INSTANCE-FUNCTION wrong produces a sensible error
1051 rather than a failed AVER. (reported by Paul Nathan)
1052 * bug fix: Parsing of &optional/&key/&rest arguments now never overwrites
1053 arguments during copying on x86 and x86-64; it may still happen on other
1054 platforms when there are more fixed arguments than stack slots.
1055 (reported by Jan Moringen)
1057 changes in sbcl-1.1.11 relative to sbcl-1.1.10:
1058 * enhancement: support building the manual under texinfo version 5.
1060 * enhancement: Windows builds no longer display the "Kitten of Death" message.
1061 A warning is instead appended to the regular banner, and may be muted with
1062 --noinform. (lp#728247)
1063 * enhancement: support building under new linker handling of syscalls under
1064 NetBSD. (thanks to Robert Swindells)
1065 * bug fix: undefined function errors are now properly reported on PPC and MIPS.
1066 (regression since 1.1.9)
1067 * bug fix: (funcall (function X junk)) didn't causes an error when X had a
1068 compiler macro. (thanks to Douglas Katzman).
1069 * bug fix: signal a warning when defining a setf-function when a
1070 setf-expander is already present. (thanks to Douglas Katzman).
1071 * bug fix: improved threading on PPC.
1072 * bug fix: ROOM works again on Windows. (lp#1206456)
1073 * bug fix: Streams were flushed even when there was one byte still left in
1074 the buffer. (lp#910213)
1075 * bug fix: OPEN handles correctly when :if-exists and :if-does-not-exist are
1076 either NIL or :ERROR. (reported by Jan Moringen)
1078 changes in sbcl-1.1.10 relative to sbcl-1.1.9:
1079 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 3.0.2.
1080 * optimization: stack frames are packed more efficiently on x86oids, which
1081 ought to reduce the frequency of Methuselahn conservative references (it
1082 certainly helps with gc.impure.lisp / BUG-936304 on x86).
1083 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, integer negation forms like (- x) are now
1084 recognized in modular arithmetic contexts, and compile to native negate,
1085 rather than going through bignums only to keep the low bits.
1086 * bug fix: Compiling potential modularic arithmetic forms does not cause type
1087 errors when some integer types lack lower or upper bounds. (lp#1199127)
1088 * bug fix: Non-trivial modular arithmetic forms are always cut to the right
1089 bitwidth before being used in a non-modular context. (lp#1199428)
1090 * bug fix: Multiple catch/unwind blocks in a single function are now
1091 allocated in the right stack order on win32. (lp#1072739)
1093 changes in sbcl-1.1.9 relative to sbcl-1.1.8:
1094 * new feature: the contrib SB-GMP links with libgmp at runtime to speed
1095 up arithmetic on bignums and ratios. (contributed by Stephan Frank)
1096 * enhancement: disassemble now annotates some previously missing static
1097 functions, like LENGTH.
1098 * enhancement: clean.sh now also cleans doc/internals.
1099 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-SYMBOL-WITH-PREFIX can be used within ~// to
1100 print a symbol with a package prefix.
1101 * enhancement: The debugger and backtracing are more robust against buggy
1102 PRINT-OBJECT methods.
1103 * optimization: calls to static functions on x86-64 use less instructions.
1104 * optimization: compute encode-universal-time at compile time when possible.
1105 * optimization: when referencing internal functions as #'x, don't go through
1106 an indirect fdefn structure.
1107 * optimization: SLEEP doesn't cons on non-immediate floats and on ratios.
1108 * optimization: (mod fixnum) type-checks are performed using one unsigned
1109 comparison, instead of two.
1110 * optimization: enable more modular arithmetic transforms in the presence of
1112 * optimization: bitwise OR forms can now trigger modular arithmetic as well,
1113 when the result is known to be negative.
1114 * optimization: recognize more cases of useless LOGAND/LOGIOR with constants.
1115 * optimization: comparisons between rationals and constant floats or between
1116 integers and constant ratios are now converted to rationals/integers at
1118 * optimization: Smaller and faster DOUBLE-FLOAT-LOW-BITS on x86-64.
1119 * bug fix: problems with NCONC type derivation (reported by Jerry James).
1120 * bug fix: EXPT type derivation no longer constructs bogus floating-point
1121 types. (reported by Vsevolod Dyomkin)
1122 * bug fix: sb-bsd-sockets has correct declaration of the canonname field of
1123 addrinfo. (lp#1187041, patch by Jerry James)
1124 * bug fix: uninitialized type-error conditions can now be printed.
1126 * bug fix: tests for sb-bsd-sockets no longer use a predefined port for
1127 listening, allowing several tests to run in parallel.
1128 * bug fix: during disassembly to *COMPILER-TRACE-OUTPUT* instruction
1129 prefixes as used on x86 and x86-64 no longer sometimes print incorrectly.
1131 * bug fix: Specialised SIMD-PACK types can be negated.
1132 * bug fix: Modular arithmetic is more robust. (incidentally fixes another bug
1133 reported by Eric Marsden)
1134 * bug fix: FP return values from foreign calls are always rounded to single
1135 or double float precision on x87.
1136 * bug fix: Known-safe vector access on x86oids should not fail spuriously
1137 when the index is of the form (+ x constant-positive-integer).
1138 * bug fix: Remove GPL-licensed files from source distribution. (lp#1185668)
1139 * bug fix: backtrace printer no longer tries to create very large lists when
1140 the arg-count register is clobberred by other code. (lp#1192929)
1141 * bug fix: x86 should never signal an FP exception while boxing an FP value,
1142 a situation that lands us into ldb.
1144 changes in sbcl-1.1.8 relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
1145 * notice: The implementation of MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of
1146 ROOM, plus a few SB-INTROSPECT functions) has been completely
1147 rewritten; it may now exhibit different bugs than before.
1148 * new feature: minimal runtime/compiler intrastructure support for SSE
1149 SIMD values, as SB-EXT:SIMD-PACK. Enabled on x86-64 via the build-time
1150 feature :sb-simd-pack. This should enable intrinsics extensions as
1151 libraries, without patching SBCL itself. Thanks to Alexander Gavrilov
1152 for maintaining a branch for so long.
1153 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
1154 the working directory of the spawned process.
1155 (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
1156 * enhancement: boxed vectors (vectors of T or of FIXNUM) can now be
1157 stack-allocated on PPC.
1158 * enhancement: "fixed objects" can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
1159 * enhancement: WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS no longer conses on PPC/GENCGC.
1160 * enhancement: (sb-introspect:find-definition-sources-by-name x :vop) now
1161 also returns VOPs which do not translate any functions, and finds
1162 defoptimizer types ir2convert and stack-allocate-result.
1163 * enhancement: better type derivation for APPEND, NCONC, LIST.
1165 * enhancement: MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of ROOM) now walks the
1166 heap in a manner similar to the GC rather than its previous ad-hoc
1167 scheme, and is therefore no less and possibly more accurate.
1168 * fixes and enhancements related to Unicode:
1169 ** the character database information has been updated to Unicode 6.2;
1170 ** support for canonical and compatibility decomposition of characters has
1171 been added, along with support for primary composition;
1172 ** support for Unicode normalization forms of strings (NFC, NFKC, NFD and
1173 NFKD) has been included;
1174 ** querying the character database for code points not defined by Unicode
1175 gives less wrong answers (lp#1178038, reported by Ken Harris)
1176 * enhancement: print intermediate evaluation results for some ASSERTed
1177 expressions. (lp#789497) (patch by Alexandra Barchunova)
1178 * enhancement: x86-64 disassemblies are annotated with unboxed constant
1179 values when there are references to (RIP-relative) unboxed constants.
1180 * bug fix: type derivation for LOG{AND,IOR,XOR} scales linearly instead
1181 of quadratically with the size of the input in the worst case.
1183 * bug fix: handle errors when initializing *default-pathname-defaults*,
1184 sb-ext:*runtime-pathname*, sb-ext:*posix-argv* on startup, like character
1185 decoding errors, or directories being deleted.
1186 * bug fix: Loading a core with a discontiguous dynamic space now correctly
1187 computes the amount of dynamic space used.
1188 * bug fix: disassembler missing ",8" on SHLD
1189 * bug fix: backtracing through INTERNAL-ERROR signal handlers on systems
1190 that provide an "invalid" stack frame link for the signal handler
1191 itself now use the saved-fp-and-pc mechanism to pick up from the stack
1192 frame in the interrupt (signal) context. This is known to affect
1193 threaded FreeBSD/x86-64.
1194 * bug fix: some LOOP statements couldn't be compiled.
1196 * bug fix: sb-sequence:dosequence works on literal vectors.
1197 * bug fix: errors in generic arithmetic show the assembly routine's
1198 caller on x86 and x86-64. (lp#800343)
1199 * bug fix: Compile-time type errors should never result in COMPILE-FILE
1200 failure. (lp#943953)
1201 * bug fix: Known bad local calls do not cause strange failures when
1202 emitting or dumping code. (lp#504121)
1203 * bug fix: Multiply-inlined structure constructor don't cause IR2-time
1204 codegen errors: type checks are inserted as necessary. (lp#1177703)
1205 * bug fix: Unsigned modular arithmetic is correctly converted into signed
1206 modular arithemtic (mostly to exploit fixnum-width VOPs). (lp#1026634)
1207 * bug fix: a combination of inlined local function with &optional and
1208 recursion no longer causes undescriptive compiler errors. (lp#1180992)
1209 * bug fix: sub-word BOOLEAN alien types now disregard higher order bits
1210 when testing for non-zero-ness.
1211 * bug fix: (CONCATENATE 'null ...) no longer fails for generic sequences.
1213 * bug fix: Type mismatch for the value of conditional expressions are
1214 correctly reported when detected at compile-time, instead of complaining
1215 about a constant NIL (similar for non-EQ-comparable catch tags).
1216 * bug fix: Referring to INLINE global functions as values should not result
1217 in a compilation failure. (lp#1035721)
1218 * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
1219 * optimization: faster and smaller INTEGER-LENGTH on fixnums on x86-64.
1220 * optimization: On x86-64, the number of multi-byte NOP instructions used
1221 for code alignment is now always minimal.
1222 * optimization: On 64-bit targets, the compiler generates much faster
1223 code for type checks for types known at compile time that are smaller
1224 than (SIGNED-BYTE 64) or (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) and larger than FIXNUM, and
1225 their COMPLEX variants.
1226 * optimization: On x86 targets, more uses of ALIEN-FUNCALL during cross
1227 compilation now inline the INVOKE-WITH-SAVED-FP-AND-PC dance.
1228 * optimization: ROOM no longer conses so egregiously on non-x86oid
1230 * optimization: associative bitwise operations reassociate patterns like
1231 (f (f x k1) k2) to expose (f x (f k1 k2)). Same for + and * of
1233 * optimization: quasiquote expressions now perform more constant folding,
1234 instead of consing equal lists at runtime. (lp#1026439)
1235 * optimization: local call analysis of inlined higher-order function
1236 should converge more quickly, resulting in better code for complex
1238 * optimization: On x86-64, medium (word-sized but wider than 32 bits)
1239 integer constants are handled more cleverly, especially when they
1240 can be represented as sign-extended (signed-byte 32). (Based on a
1241 patch by Douglas Katzman)
1242 * optimization: IF/IF conversion should reliably result in sane code
1243 when (some of) the results of the inner IF are always false or
1245 * optimization: On x86oids, variable right shifts of machine words are
1246 compiled into straight SAR/SHR, instead of going through the generic
1249 changes in sbcl-1.1.7 relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
1250 * enhancement: TRACE :PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued forms.
1252 * bug fix: :allocation slot option works for condition slots
1254 * bug fix: redefining conditions does not lead to multiple evaluations of
1255 hairy slot initfunctions anymore (lp#1164969)
1256 * bug fix: CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS now works for condition classes
1258 * bug fix: function constants now work as initforms and default initarg
1259 values of conditions (lp#539517)
1260 * bug fix: svref/(setf svref) on symbol macros don't crash the compiler
1261 anymore. (Minimal test case provided by James M. Lawrence on sbcl-devel)
1262 * bug fix: no more bogus ## references when pretty printing backquoted
1263 forms with non-trivial structure sharing. (lp#1161218)
1264 * bug fix: Don't signal an error on (setf (documentation nil 'function)
1265 "doc"). Signal a style-warning instead when trying to set documentation
1266 of NIL for all other documentation types. (Reported by Zach
1267 Beane; regression since 2e52fa05.)
1268 * bug fix: modular arithmetic involving large constants and conditionals
1269 should no longer result in spurious dead code elimination. (Reported by
1271 * bug fix: our mach exception handler can seemingly called very early in
1272 the program execution process on OS X 10.8.0. Try and handle that case
1273 robustly, without potentially leaking mach ports too much.
1274 * optimization: LOGBITP and LOGTEST optimizations from x86 ported to x86_64.
1276 changes in sbcl-1.1.6 relative to sbcl-1.1.5:
1277 * enhancement: the continuable error when defknown-ing over extant
1278 fndb entries can be ignored by passing :overwrite-fndb-silently t
1279 as a keyword argument to sb-c:defknown (after attributes). Useful
1280 to allow defknown to be re-loaded. Use with :allow-other-keys t
1281 for backward compatibility.
1282 * optimization: compiler is much faster in compiling SVREF and (SETF SVREF)
1284 * bug fix: Prevent a make-array transform from modifying source forms
1285 causing problems for inlined code. Thanks to Bart Botta.
1286 (regression since 1.0.42.11-bis)
1287 * bug fix: clear-output calls the correct gray stream routine,
1288 sb-gray:stream-clear-output. (lp#1153257)
1289 * bug fix: an error is signalled for an invalid format modifier: ~<~@>.
1291 * bug fix: Better error messages for package operations (lp#1154776)
1292 * bug fix: delete-package on a nonexistent package should signal a cerror.
1293 (regression since 1.0.37.44).
1294 * bug fix: accessing &MORE (stack allocated &REST) arguments checks bounds.
1295 (lp#1154946, lp#1072112)
1296 * bug fix: compiling make-array no longer signals an error when the
1297 element-type is an uknown type, a warning is issued instead.
1298 Thanks to James Kalenius (lp#1156095)
1299 * bug fix: SEARCH on generic (non-VECTOR non-LIST) sequence types no longer
1300 produces wrong results for some inputs. (Thanks to Jan Moringen.)
1303 changes in sbcl-1.1.5 relative to sbcl-1.1.4:
1304 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING no longer loops
1306 * new feature: package local nicknames. See manual for details.
1307 * new feature: SB-EXT:MAP-DIRECTORY provides a powerful interface for
1308 directory traversal: it is the backend used by SBCL for CL:DIRECTORY.
1309 * enhancement: easier to use restarts for resolving name-conflicts
1310 resulting from IMPORT, EXPORT, or USE-PACKAGE.
1311 * enhancement: variant DEFPACKAGE forms now signal a full error with
1312 restarts provided for resolving the situation. (lp#891351)
1313 * enhancement: by setting SB-EXT:*ON-PACKAGE-VARIANCE* appropriately variant
1314 DEFPACKAGE forms can now signal a full error with restarts provided for
1315 resolving the situation. See manual for details. (lp#891351)
1316 * enhancement: make-random-state now uses CryptGenRandom as a seed on Windows.
1317 (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) (lp#1102748)
1318 * enhancement: backtrace improvements
1319 ** secondary CLOS dispatch functions have better debug names (lp#503081)
1320 ** easier to read method names in backtraces. See
1321 SB-DEBUG:*METHOD-FRAME-STYLE*.
1322 ** SB-DEBUG:PRINT-BACKTRACE and SB-DEBUG:LIST-BACKTRACE are available as
1323 forwards-compatible replacements for SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE and
1324 SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST.
1325 ** SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS** has been deprecated, as the same
1326 information is available in less intrusive form as frame annotations.
1327 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides MAP-ANON.
1328 * enhancement: test-suite results are colorized, failures in red, unexpected
1329 success in green. Works on Windows and on terminals with ANSI escape code
1330 support. Can be disabled with --no-color.
1331 * optimization: SB-CONCURRENCY:QUEUE implementation is more efficient.
1332 (thanks to James M. Lawrence)
1333 * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings from RESTART-CASE
1334 macroexpansion (lp#1113859)
1335 * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings when loading
1336 sb-bsd-sockets.asd (lp#1114681)
1337 * bug fix: deleting a package removes it from implementation-package
1338 lists of other packages.
1339 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING is now usable in the Slime REPL on Darwin.
1340 This does not fix the occasional "interrupt already pending" issue, though.
1341 * bug fix: (setf (documentation 'x 'function)) and
1342 (setf (documentation #'x t)) set documentation in different places.
1343 (regression since 1.0.43.63)
1344 * bug fix: build on newer glibc. (lp#1095036)
1346 changes in sbcl-1.1.4 relative to sbcl-1.1.3:
1347 * optimization: LOOP expressions using "of-type character" have slightly
1348 more efficient expansions.
1349 * bug fix: very long (or infinite) constant lists in DOLIST do not result
1350 in very long compile times or heap exhaustion anymore. (lp#1095488)
1351 * bug fix: `#3(1) is read as #(1 1 1), not as #(1). (lp#1095918)
1352 * bug fix: adjust-array ignored :initial-element for simple-vectors.
1354 * bug fix: optimizations to MAKE-INSTANCE with literal list initargs no
1355 longer cause infinite loops (on circular data) or violate eqlity
1356 constraints. (lp#1099708)
1357 * bug fix: FIRST was not being open coded. (regression from 1.1.0)
1359 changes in sbcl-1.1.3 relative to sbcl-1.1.2:
1360 * enhancement: warnings about bad locale settings, LANG, LC_CTYPE, etc.
1362 * enhancement: support for C-c to interrupt the foreground thread
1363 on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
1364 * enhancement: STDCALL alien callbacks. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
1365 * enhancement: Safepoint builds on POSIX platforms can now optionally be
1366 built without pseudo-atomic sequences and their run-time overhead.
1367 * enhancement: Threads created outside of Lisp can enter Lisp through
1368 alien callbacks and appear as Lisp threads for the duration of that
1369 function invocation. On safepoint builds only.
1370 * enhancement: Miscellaneous improvements to namestrings and underlying
1371 calls to OS functions for file system access on Windows. (Thanks to
1373 * enhancement: The MSI installer support for Windows now uses Windows
1374 Installer XML at least version 3.5 and includes various usability
1375 improvements. (Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.)
1376 * enhancement: The sb-bsd-sockets contrib now supports non-blocking-mode
1377 on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
1378 * enhancement: The Windows backend now supports the x86-64 platform.
1379 (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
1380 * bug fix: fasls are now once again directly executable (on platforms
1381 supporting shebang lines, with a suitably-installed sbcl).
1382 * bug fix: make.sh --help no longer runs clean.sh. (lp#937001)
1383 * bug fix: Fix CAS access to slots of direct instances of structure classes
1384 in the presence of subclasses sharing the same conc-name.
1385 * bug fix: Logical pathname namestrings on Windows have been changed to
1386 be lower-case, to minimize differences between POSIX and Windows.
1388 changes in sbcl-1.1.2 relative to sbcl-1.1.1:
1389 * notice: System requirements for SBCL on Microsoft Windows: Windows NT 5.1
1390 or newer (Windows XP, Server 2003) is required. Support for Windows 2000
1391 (NT 5.0) is no longer being maintained.
1392 * notice: Starting with this version, SBCL on Windows no longer supports
1393 building with disabled thread support.
1394 * enhancement: frlocks have been added to SB-CONCURRENCY contrib module.
1395 * enhancement: New feature sb-dynamic-core allows the runtime to be
1396 rebuilt or relocated without requiring changes to the core file on
1397 all linkage table platforms. Required on Windows. (Thanks to Anton
1399 * enhancement: Console I/O streams use UCS-2. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.)
1400 * enhancement: I/O on Windows unnamed pipes is interruptible
1401 asynchronously using interrupt-thread, timers when running on Windows NT
1402 version 6.1 or newer (Windows 7, Server 2008 R2). (Thanks to Anton
1404 * enhancement: Support for the experimental safepoint-based stop-the-world
1405 protocol on the PowerPC platform.
1406 * bug fix: Non-blocking reads from the Windows console were not necessarily
1407 non-blocking. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko. (lp#308923)
1408 * bug fix: stability of threads on Windows has been improved upon through
1409 an updated stop-the-world protocol (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
1411 changes in sbcl-1.1.1 relative to sbcl-1.1.0:
1412 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT no longer grabs the world-lock.
1413 (COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE still do.)
1414 * optimization: the SPARC backend now supports the precise generational
1415 (GENCGC) garbage collection. Enabled by default on Solaris/SPARC and
1416 Linux/SPARC. Thanks to Raymond Toy (via CMUCL).
1417 * enhancement: add experimental support for the SB-THREAD feature and the
1418 timer facility on Windows. Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.
1419 Threads are enabled by default, and this version of SBCL is considered
1420 to be the last and final release to officially support building with
1422 * optimization: The compiler no longer rotates loops in some cases where
1423 this transformation actually lead to worse code being generated.
1424 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:MACROEXPAND-ALL correctly handles shadowing of
1425 symbol-macros by lexical bindings.
1426 * bug fix: stack allocation was prevented by high DEBUG declaration in
1428 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GC-LOGFILE signaled an error when no logfile was set.
1429 (thanks to SANO Masatoshi)
1430 * bug fix: PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING performed non-native parsing when
1431 :JUNK-ALLOWED was true.
1432 * bug fix: type derivation inferred overly conservative types for
1433 unions of array types. (lp#1050768)
1435 changes in sbcl-1.1.0 relative to sbcl-1.0.58:
1436 * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling
1437 source annotation of DISASSEMBLE output. Defaults to T.
1438 * enhancement: TIMEOUT arguments added to WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK, and
1439 WAIT-P argument added to WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK.
1440 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-PUSH and SB-EXT:ATOMIC-POP allow atomic operations
1442 * enhancement: Optional features (not enabled by default) allow the
1443 use of signals for inter-thread synchronization to be reduced on certain
1444 supported platforms (currently Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD on x86 and
1445 x86-64). Set (and :sb-thread :sb-safepoint :sb-thruption :sb-wtimer)
1446 to test these experimental features. Known remaining bugs include minor
1447 thread safety issues, less timely freeing of memory by GC, and certain
1448 (not yet optimally low) runtime overhead. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.
1449 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT of lists are faster and use fewer
1450 comparisons, particularly on almost-sorted inputs.
1451 * bug fix: Reading floats with large exponents no longer takes too much time
1452 before reporting that the exponent is too large.
1453 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-RECEIVE with a UDP socket now works
1454 correctly when the received datagram is larger than the provided buffer.
1455 (lp#1023438, thanks to Robert Uhl)
1456 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION returned a bogus read-form when given
1457 a SYMBOL-VALUE form with a constant symbol argument.
1458 * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION signaled an error when a macro expanding
1459 into a DEFCAS defined place was used as the place.
1460 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION signaled a type-error when non-bits where looked
1461 for from bit-vectors.
1462 * bug fix: a race condition around thread creation could (in SBCL 1.0.57)
1463 lead to internal errors or crashes (lp#1058799).
1464 * documentation: a section on random number generation has been added to the
1467 changes in sbcl-1.0.58 relative to sbcl-1.0.57:
1468 * enhancement: implicit generic function warnings now specify the package
1469 in which the new generic function is being created.
1470 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-UPDATE makes it easy to perform non-destructive
1471 updates of CAS-able places (similar to Clojure's swap!).
1472 * enhancement: run-program no longer decodes and re-encodes environment when
1473 :environment argument is not provided. (lp#985904)
1474 * enhancement: errors during compiler-macro expansion no longer cause
1475 runtime errors, only a compile-time warning, otherwise behaving as if
1476 the compiler macro had declined to expand.
1477 * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with
1478 multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP.
1479 * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is
1480 of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (lp#1001043,
1481 thanks to James M. Lawrence)
1482 * optimization: the compiler no longer heap-conses to check exits in cases
1483 where the exit function is dynamic extent, or when it can prove the exit
1484 function cannot escape. (lp#1002534)
1485 * optimization: SB-SEQUENCE:DOSEQUENCE is faster on vectors of unknown
1486 element type, and vectors that aren't SIMPLE-ARRAYs.
1487 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT are more efficient in execution
1488 speed (around 1/3 the time in some cases), and a little better in terms of
1489 comparison calls. (Thanks to Takeru Ohta)
1490 * bug fix: On SPARC, a limitation on the number of code constants emittable
1491 by the compiler has been lifted, allowing certain long functions to
1492 compiled and assembled which had previously been unsupported; fixes
1493 cl-bench on this ISA (lp#1008996).
1494 * bug fix: potential for infinite recursion during compilation of CLOS slot
1495 typechecks when dependency graph had loops. (lp#1001799)
1496 * bug fix: error forms reported with some program-errors were not escaped
1498 * bug fix: functions from EVAL are now on more equal footing with functions
1499 from COMPILE. (lp#1000783, lp#851170, lp#922408)
1500 * bug fix: ENSURE-GENERIC-METHOD-COMBINATION accepts method combination
1501 objects as its :METHOD-COMBINATION argument, not just lists designating
1502 method combinations. (lp#936513)
1503 * bug fix: run-program no longer unconditionally uses /tmp/ for temporary
1505 * bug fix: restore build on solaris/sparc. (lp#1008506)
1506 * bug fix: an issue with LDB in the PowerPC backend has been resolved;
1507 this fixes an issue found with cl-postgres (thanks to Tomas Hlavaty).
1508 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-lists specifying non-keyword symbols
1509 as keyword arguments no longer accidentally match unevaluated symbols
1511 * bug fix: FORMAT used to loop infinitely in some cases when a COLINC
1512 parameter was zero, now it signals an error. (lp#905817, fixed since
1514 * bug fix: run-program with :pty t no longer makes the pty as the process's
1515 controling terminal.
1516 * bug fix: spawning threads on OS X 10.8 no longer crashes the process
1519 changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
1520 * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes:
1521 ** bug fix: the range and distribution of random integers could be
1522 catastrophically wrong when the compiler derived the type of its
1523 argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1524 ** bug fix: the distribution of random integers is now completely
1525 uniform even when the specified limit is not a power of two.
1526 (Previously some values could be about 0.1 % more probable than
1527 others in the worst case.) (lp#309467)
1528 ** RANDOM on large integer arguments is generally faster and conses
1529 less than before; this is visible for fixnums above a length of
1530 about 24 bits, but extremely so for bignums: the old implementation
1531 used time and space quadratical in the size of the argument there,
1532 the new one is linear.
1533 * enhancement: redesigned protocol for quitting SBCL. SB-EXT:EXIT is the new
1534 main entry point, SB-EXT:QUIT is deprecated.
1535 * enhancement: additions to the SB-THREAD API: RETURN-FROM-THREAD,
1536 ABORT-THREAD, MAIN-THREAD-P, and MAIN-THREAD.
1537 * enhancement: FASL loading no longer grabs the world-lock.
1538 * enhancement: GENCGC reclaims space more aggressively when objects being
1539 allocated are a large fraction of the total available heap space.
1541 * enhancement: backtraces show the correct number of arguments for frames
1542 called with too many arguments.
1543 * enhancement: support for abort(3), exit(3), and _exit(2) has been added to
1545 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.21.
1546 * optimization: fewer uses of full calls to signed modular functions.
1548 * optimization: typechecking alien values is typically 5 x faster.
1549 * optimization: FDEFINITION, SYMBOL-FUNCTION, MACRO-FUNCTION, and FBOUNDP
1551 * bug fix: file compilation performance issues when dumping subtypes
1552 of CHARACTER (lp#994487)
1553 * bug fix: fixed disassembly of some SSE instructions on x86-64.
1554 * bug fix: SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS signals an error for bogus :CLASS arguments in
1555 OPEN. (lp#969352, thanks to Kambiz Darabi)
1556 * bug fix: CASE normal-clauses do not allow T and OTHERWISE as keys.
1558 * bug fix: (SETF (FIND-CLASS X) NIL) removed proper name of the underlying
1559 classoid even if X was not the proper name of the class. (lp#941102)
1560 * bug fix: declaration leakage between lexical environments due to careless
1561 use of NCONC in MAKE-LEXENV. (lp#924276)
1562 * bug fix: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST now works when
1563 *default-pathname-defaults* contains NAME or TYPE components.
1564 * bug fix: PPRINT couldn't print improper lists with CARs being some symbols
1565 from CL package, e.g. (loop . 10).
1566 * bug fix: run-program with existent or non-existent files for :output or
1567 :input when :if-output-exists or :if-input-does-not-exist are NIL properly
1568 returns NIL instead of signalling an obscure error.
1569 * bug fix: fix miscompilation of some logand forms with large constant
1570 arguments. (lp#974406)
1571 * bug fix: account for funcallable-instance objects properly in ROOM.
1572 * bug fix: incorrect octets reported for c-string decoding errors.
1574 * bug fix: miscompilation of LDB on the PowerPC platform. (thanks to Bruce
1576 * bug fix: better input error reporting for COMPILE-FILE. (lp#493380)
1577 * bug fix: default size of non-nursery generations has been shrunk on GENCGC,
1578 allowing faster release of memory back to the OS. (lp#991293)
1579 * bug fix: WITH-DEADLINE (:SECONDS NIL :OVERRIDE T) now drops any
1580 existing deadline for the dynamic scope of its body.
1581 * bug fix: compiler-internal interval arithmetic needed to be more
1582 conservative about open intervals when operated on by monotonic but not
1583 strictly-monotonic functions. (lp#975528)
1584 * bug fix: copy-tree caused stack exhaustion on long linear lists, and now
1585 it's also slightly faster. (lp#998926)
1586 * bug fix: better error messages for malformed declarations.
1588 * bug fix: define-condition didn't return the name of the defined condition.
1590 ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)
1592 changes in sbcl-1.0.56 relative to sbcl-1.0.55:
1593 * bug fix: fix copy-structure. When copying from stack to heap, garbage
1594 could end up in the heap making GC unhappy.
1595 (Thanks to James Knight, lp#911027)
1597 ** SBCL can now be built using Clang.
1598 ** ASDF has been updated 2.20.
1599 * bug fix: compiler errors when weakening hairy integer types. (lp#913232)
1600 * bug fix: don't complain about a too-hairy lexical environment for inlining
1601 when the function has never been requested for inlining. (lp#963530)
1603 changes in sbcl-1.0.55 relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
1604 * enhancements to building SBCL using make.sh:
1605 ** --fancy can be specified to enable all supported feature enhancements.
1606 ** --with-<feature> and --without-<feature> can be used to specify
1607 which features to build with.
1608 ** --arch option can be used to specify the architecture to build for.
1609 (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not
1610 full-blows cross-compilation.)
1611 * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax <pkgname>::<form-in-package>
1612 which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the
1614 * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than
1615 T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown)
1616 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a
1617 null alien when malloc() fails. (lp#891268)
1618 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-UNREADABLY restart for PRINT-NOT-READABLE
1619 conditions can be conveniently accessed through function with the same
1620 name, analogously to CONTINUE.
1621 * enhancement: SB-EXT:*SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* can be used to suppress errors
1622 from the printer by type, causing an error marker to be printed instead.
1623 (Thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1624 * enhancement: BACKTRACE and DESCRIBE now bind *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T, and
1625 generally behave better when errors occur during printing.
1626 * enhancement: the test runner now takes a --report-skipped-tests argument
1627 to report the individual tests skipped as well as the number of skipped
1629 * enhancement: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
1630 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on x86oids.
1631 * enhancement: detected deadlocks no longer cause stderr to be spammed, and
1632 deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
1633 * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
1635 * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
1636 :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
1637 of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to LuÃs Oliveira, lp#901661)
1638 * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other
1639 instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64.
1640 * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude
1641 faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial.)
1642 * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
1644 * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
1645 be stack-allocated. (lp#902351)
1646 * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
1647 floating point constants used in full calls.
1648 * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
1649 single floats inline, except on x86 where this limitation is still
1651 * optimization: truncation operations on integers with constant divisor
1652 arguments 1 and -1 are optimized away.
1653 * bug fix: deadlock detection could report the same deadlock twice, for
1654 two different threads. Now a single deadlock is reported exactly once.
1655 * bug fix: interval-arithmetic division during type derivation did not
1656 account for signed zeros.
1657 * bug fix: compiler error when typechecking a call to a function with
1658 non-constant keyword arguments.
1659 * bug fix: misoptimization of TRUNCATE causing erratic behaviour.
1660 * bug fix: condition slot accessors no longer cause undefined function
1661 style-warnings when used in the :REPORT clause of the DEFINE-CONDITION
1662 form that defines them. (lp#896379)
1663 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC warns about unsupported declarations, as specified
1664 by ANSI. (lp#894202)
1665 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP tests involving forward-referenced classes no longer
1666 bogusly report NIL, T.
1667 * bug fix: bogus style-warnings for DEFMETHOD forms that both declared some
1668 required arguments ignored and performed assignments to others.
1670 * bug fix: *EVALUATOR-MODE* :COMPILE treated (LET () ...) identically
1671 to (LOCALLY ...) leading to internally inconsistent toplevel-formness.
1672 * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type.
1673 * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an
1674 unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243)
1675 * bug fix: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
1676 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on non-x86oids.
1677 * bug fix: backtraces are no longer cut off at ("undefined function") when
1678 called under certain circumstances (involving a caller-allocated stack
1680 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM leaked a file-descriptor per call on non-Windows
1681 systems. (regression since 1.0.53)
1682 * bug fix: GC deadlocks from dladdr() on certain platforms.
1683 * bug fix: broken standard streams no longer automatically cause recursive
1684 errors on debugger entry.
1685 * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
1686 (regression since 1.0.53)
1687 * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
1688 an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
1689 * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
1690 no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
1691 * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
1692 subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
1693 * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
1694 forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
1695 * bug fix: some of the compile-time side-effects of DEFCLASS were not caught
1697 * bug fix: Proper handling of --dynamic-space-size option on 32 bit platforms.
1699 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
1700 * minor incompatible changes:
1701 ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file
1702 instead of the link.
1703 ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the
1704 directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve the
1705 pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE if
1706 you wish to delete the
1707 ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using
1708 symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning.
1709 * thread-related enhancements:
1710 (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign.
1711 Many thanks to generous donors!)
1712 ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still don't
1713 consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to enable them by
1714 default, but they're in a clearly better shape now.
1715 ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms.
1716 ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT
1718 ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD.
1719 ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects.
1720 ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE,
1721 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
1722 ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
1723 using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
1724 * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes:
1725 ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb,
1726 and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before.
1727 ** on GENCGC targets, the default dynamic space size is now 512Mb for
1728 32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only
1729 exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The
1730 new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems.
1731 Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with
1732 another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a
1733 good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system
1735 ** on GENCGC targets, nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of
1737 ** on GENCGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ no longer categorically
1738 refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
1739 ** on 64-bit GENCGC targets, setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works.
1741 ** on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does the same
1742 validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
1743 comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.
1744 * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes:
1745 ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
1746 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
1747 systems with getaddrinfo().
1748 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
1749 safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
1750 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.019.
1751 * enhancement: special-case TCO prevention for functions which never return
1752 extended to untrusted types, keeping one more frame's worth of debug
1753 information around in many cases.
1754 * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more
1755 descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100)
1756 * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against
1757 overflows. (lp#888410)
1758 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child
1759 process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987)
1760 * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing
1761 the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are
1762 located. (Thanks to Zach Beane)
1763 * enhancement: the compiler is now able to derive tighter bounds for
1764 floating point numbers in some cases. (Thanks to Lutz Euler, lp#894498)
1765 * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
1766 correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
1767 * bug fix: (DIRECTORY "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that
1768 resolved to directories.
1769 * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer
1770 result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750)
1771 * bug fix: type mismatch on (SETF AREF) and function return values no
1772 longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects.
1773 * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
1774 <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
1775 instead of partially calculating only to single-precision. (lp#741564;
1776 thanks to Lutz Euler)
1777 * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus
1778 objects when interrupted by GC on PPC.
1780 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
1781 * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,
1782 the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum =
1783 (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.
1784 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events.
1785 * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit
1786 targets is now 63 bits (up from 61).
1787 * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location
1788 for complext setf-expanders.
1789 * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO,
1790 GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values
1791 of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an
1792 error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3).
1793 * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64.
1794 * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation
1795 when built with certain compilers.
1796 * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant
1797 rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151)
1798 * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus
1799 code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on
1800 x86oids. (lp#883500)
1801 * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying
1802 to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with
1803 constant characters.
1804 * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage
1805 on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445)
1806 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to
1807 delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877)
1808 * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length
1809 sequences and :KEY NIL.
1811 changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51:
1812 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017.
1813 * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with
1815 * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular
1816 or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION
1817 argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level.
1818 * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime
1819 hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL
1820 processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only
1821 enable this for compressed cores.
1822 * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses.
1823 * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings
1824 or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table.
1825 * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error.
1827 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with
1828 AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971)
1829 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of
1830 multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970)
1831 * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list
1832 expressions. (lp#770184)
1833 * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used
1834 as arguments of arithmetic operators.
1835 * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a
1836 fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller)
1837 * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds
1838 from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max
1840 * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are
1841 added or removed works again.
1843 changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50:
1844 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer
1845 participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to
1846 MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT.
1847 * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals
1848 and probe counts on Linux.
1849 * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a
1850 chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.)
1851 * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive
1853 * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine
1854 (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
1855 * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on
1856 x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov).
1857 * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed
1858 to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently
1859 implemented for x86 and x86-64.
1860 * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented
1861 using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.)
1862 * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE.
1863 * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle
1864 instructions. (lp#814688)
1865 * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works.
1866 (reported by Jan Moringen; lp#815155)
1867 * bug fix: a compiler error during typecheck generation, reported by Eric
1868 Marsden. (lp#816564)
1869 * bug fix: obsolete instance protocol fires when shared slots are added
1871 * bug fix: fixed-format floating point printing with scaling factors.
1873 * bug fix: using GCC >= 4.6 to build SBCL on x86 no longer breaks
1874 backtraces. (lp#818460)
1875 * bug fix: better backtraces for interrupted syscall frames on x86.
1877 * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one
1878 operand is in memory. (lp#814702)
1879 * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599)
1880 * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived
1881 type information associated with the VALUES form.
1882 * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE
1884 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before
1885 first write (lp#561642).
1886 * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974)
1887 * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to
1888 floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler.
1890 * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known
1891 functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459).
1892 * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression
1895 changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
1896 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
1897 the offending handler.
1898 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure
1900 * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily
1901 be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*
1902 and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*.
1903 * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for
1904 the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments.
1905 * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when
1906 COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED.
1907 * enhancement: SB-ALIEN exports alien type specifiers SIZE-T and OFF-T.
1908 * enhancement: debugger understands &MORE arguments better.
1909 * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been
1910 optimized. (lp#555201)
1911 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors,
1912 when (> SPEED SPACE).
1913 * optimization: local call trampolines (x86 and x86-64) are emitted
1915 * optimization: implicit value cells for dynamic-extent closed-over bindings
1916 on x86 and x86-64 can hold unboxed values as well.
1917 * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large
1918 functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206)
1919 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
1920 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
1921 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
1922 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
1923 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
1924 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
1925 * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT
1926 boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots.
1927 * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist.
1928 (lp#795705, regression)
1929 * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames.
1930 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings
1931 are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237)
1932 * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in
1933 MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812)
1934 * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg.
1935 (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously.
1937 * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic
1938 functions with both optional and key argments.
1939 * bug fix: regalloc doesn't barf on unused TNs due to type-directed constant
1940 folding. (lp#729765)
1941 * bug fix: Fixed an off-by-one in MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS that might have caused
1944 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
1945 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
1946 interrupts for its body.
1947 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
1948 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
1949 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
1950 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
1951 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
1952 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
1953 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
1955 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
1957 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
1958 type-errors detected at compile-time.
1959 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
1960 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
1961 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
1962 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
1963 easier to use safely.
1964 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
1965 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
1966 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
1967 * enhancement: --script improvements:
1968 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
1969 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
1971 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
1972 terminal even if one is available.
1973 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
1975 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
1976 strings to foreign memory.
1977 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
1978 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
1979 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
1980 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
1981 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
1983 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
1984 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
1986 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
1987 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
1988 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
1989 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
1990 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
1991 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
1992 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
1993 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
1994 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
1996 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
1998 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
2000 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
2001 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
2002 years, is now no longer supported.
2003 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
2004 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
2005 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
2006 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
2007 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
2008 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
2009 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
2010 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
2011 functions. (lp#740717)
2012 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
2013 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
2014 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
2015 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
2016 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
2018 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
2019 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
2020 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
2021 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
2022 of DEFUN. (lp#675584)
2023 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
2025 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
2027 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
2028 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
2029 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
2031 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
2032 could exhaust stack.
2034 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
2035 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
2036 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
2038 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
2039 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
2040 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
2041 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
2042 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
2043 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
2044 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
2045 declarations. (lp#726331)
2046 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
2047 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
2048 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
2050 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
2051 and its compatriots.
2052 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
2053 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
2054 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
2055 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
2056 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
2057 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
2058 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
2059 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
2060 are detected. (lp#520607)
2061 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
2063 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
2064 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
2065 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
2066 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
2067 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
2068 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
2069 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
2071 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
2072 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
2073 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
2074 variable. (lp#551227)
2075 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
2077 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
2078 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
2079 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
2080 arguments (lp#710017)
2081 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
2082 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
2084 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
2085 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
2086 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
2087 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
2088 up instance creation in those cases.
2089 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
2090 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
2091 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
2092 pretty-printing was overly slow.
2093 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
2094 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
2095 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
2096 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
2097 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
2099 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
2100 mistake. (lp#667297).
2101 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
2102 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
2103 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
2104 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
2105 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
2106 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
2109 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
2110 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
2111 Refer to documentation for details.
2112 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
2113 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
2114 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
2115 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
2116 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
2117 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
2119 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
2120 argument list. (lp#310173)
2121 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
2122 derived properly (lp#384892)
2123 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
2124 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
2125 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
2126 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
2127 in the DEFMETHOD body.
2128 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
2129 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
2130 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
2131 operators. (lp#309448)
2133 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
2134 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
2135 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
2136 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
2138 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
2139 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
2140 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
2141 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
2142 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
2144 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
2145 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
2146 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
2147 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
2148 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
2149 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
2150 addition member types.
2151 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
2152 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
2153 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
2154 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
2155 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
2157 * improvements to the Windows port:
2158 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
2159 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
2160 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
2161 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
2162 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
2164 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
2165 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
2166 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
2167 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
2169 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
2170 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
2171 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
2172 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
2173 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
2174 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
2175 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
2176 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
2177 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
2178 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
2179 so badly. (lp#654485)
2180 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
2181 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
2182 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
2183 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
2184 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
2185 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
2186 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
2187 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
2188 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
2189 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
2190 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
2191 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
2192 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
2193 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
2194 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
2195 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
2196 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2197 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
2199 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
2200 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
2201 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
2202 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
2203 contribs (lp#659105)
2204 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
2205 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
2206 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
2207 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
2208 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
2209 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
2210 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
2211 properly. (lp#384801)
2212 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
2213 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
2215 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
2216 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
2217 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
2218 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
2219 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
2221 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
2222 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2223 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
2224 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2226 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
2227 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
2228 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
2229 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
2230 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
2231 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
2232 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
2233 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
2235 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
2237 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
2238 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
2239 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
2241 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
2242 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
2243 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2244 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
2245 thanks to Andrew Golding)
2246 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
2247 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
2249 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
2250 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
2251 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2252 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
2253 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2254 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
2255 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2256 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
2257 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
2258 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
2259 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
2260 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
2261 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
2262 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
2264 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
2265 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
2266 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
2267 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2268 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
2269 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2270 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
2271 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
2272 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
2273 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
2274 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
2275 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
2276 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
2277 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
2278 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
2279 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
2280 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
2281 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
2282 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
2284 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
2286 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
2287 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
2289 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
2291 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
2292 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
2293 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
2294 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
2295 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
2296 * optimization: The default implementation of
2297 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
2298 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
2299 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
2300 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
2301 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
2302 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
2303 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
2304 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
2305 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
2306 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
2307 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
2309 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
2310 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
2311 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
2312 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
2313 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
2314 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
2316 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
2318 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
2319 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
2320 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
2321 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
2322 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
2323 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
2325 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
2327 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
2328 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
2330 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
2331 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
2333 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
2334 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
2335 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
2336 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
2337 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
2338 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
2339 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
2340 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
2341 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
2342 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
2343 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
2344 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
2346 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
2348 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
2349 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
2350 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
2351 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
2352 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
2353 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
2354 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
2355 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
2356 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
2357 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
2359 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
2360 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
2361 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
2363 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
2364 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
2365 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
2367 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
2368 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
2369 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
2371 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
2372 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
2373 generic function call.
2374 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
2375 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
2376 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
2378 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
2380 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
2381 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
2382 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
2383 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
2384 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
2385 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
2386 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
2387 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
2388 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
2389 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
2390 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
2391 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
2392 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
2393 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
2394 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
2396 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
2397 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
2398 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
2399 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
2400 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
2401 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
2402 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
2403 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
2404 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
2405 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
2406 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
2407 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
2408 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
2409 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
2410 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
2411 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
2412 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
2413 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
2414 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
2415 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
2416 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
2417 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
2418 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
2419 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
2420 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
2422 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
2423 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
2424 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
2426 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
2427 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
2429 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
2430 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
2431 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
2432 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
2434 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
2435 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
2436 stack frame thrown from.
2437 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
2438 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
2439 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
2440 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
2442 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
2443 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
2444 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
2445 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
2446 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
2447 for accessing such arrays.
2448 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
2449 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
2450 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
2451 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2452 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
2453 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
2454 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
2455 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
2456 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
2457 functions. (lp#524707)
2458 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2459 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
2460 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
2461 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
2462 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
2463 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
2464 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
2465 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
2466 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
2467 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
2468 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
2469 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
2470 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
2471 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
2473 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
2474 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
2475 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
2476 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
2477 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
2479 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2480 declarations (lp#497321)
2481 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
2482 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
2483 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
2485 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
2486 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
2487 due to it, so that handlers can run.
2488 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
2489 parsing. (lp#309128)
2490 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
2491 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
2492 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
2493 expanded calls (lp#542174)
2494 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
2495 than just at toplevel form.
2497 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
2498 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
2499 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
2500 but work on type specifiers.
2501 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
2502 to name a type specifier.
2503 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
2504 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
2505 second argument of TYPEP".
2506 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
2507 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
2508 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
2509 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
2510 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
2511 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
2512 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
2513 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
2514 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
2515 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
2516 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
2517 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
2518 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
2520 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
2522 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
2523 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
2525 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
2526 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
2527 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
2528 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
2529 before reaching the erring stack frame.
2530 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
2531 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
2532 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
2533 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
2534 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
2535 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
2536 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
2537 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
2539 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
2540 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
2541 is properly inlined when possible.
2542 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
2543 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
2544 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
2545 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
2546 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
2547 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
2548 launchpad bug lp#508485)
2549 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
2550 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
2551 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
2552 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
2553 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
2554 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
2556 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
2557 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
2559 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
2561 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
2562 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
2563 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
2564 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
2565 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
2566 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
2567 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
2569 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
2570 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
2571 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
2572 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
2573 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
2574 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
2575 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
2576 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
2577 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
2578 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
2579 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
2580 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
2581 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
2582 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
2584 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
2587 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
2588 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
2589 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
2590 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
2591 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
2592 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
2593 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
2594 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
2596 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
2597 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
2598 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
2599 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
2601 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
2602 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
2603 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
2604 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
2605 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
2606 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
2608 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
2609 errors for fd-stream external formats.
2610 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
2611 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
2612 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
2613 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
2614 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
2616 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
2617 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
2618 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
2619 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
2621 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
2622 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
2623 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
2624 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
2625 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
2627 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
2628 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
2629 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
2630 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
2631 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
2632 error is near the end of file.
2633 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
2634 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
2635 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
2636 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
2637 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
2638 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
2639 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
2640 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
2641 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
2642 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
2643 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
2644 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
2645 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
2646 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
2647 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
2648 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
2649 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
2650 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
2651 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
2652 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
2653 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
2654 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
2655 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
2656 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
2658 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
2659 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
2660 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
2661 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
2662 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
2663 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
2664 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
2665 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
2666 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
2668 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
2669 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
2670 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
2671 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
2673 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
2674 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
2675 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
2677 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
2679 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
2680 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
2682 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
2683 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
2684 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
2685 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
2686 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
2687 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
2688 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
2689 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
2690 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
2691 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
2692 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
2693 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
2694 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
2696 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
2697 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
2698 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
2699 open coded is now considered a bug.
2700 * improvements related to Unicode:
2701 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
2702 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
2703 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
2705 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
2706 syllable characters.
2707 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
2708 (as well as for stream operations).
2709 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
2710 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
2712 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
2713 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
2715 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
2717 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
2718 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
2719 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
2720 constant two has been optimized.
2721 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
2722 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
2723 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
2724 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
2725 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
2726 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
2727 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
2728 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
2729 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
2730 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
2731 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
2732 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
2733 but assumed or declared function as well.
2734 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
2735 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
2736 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
2737 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
2739 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
2740 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
2741 well as user defined declaration names.
2742 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
2743 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
2745 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
2746 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2747 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
2748 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
2749 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
2751 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
2753 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
2755 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
2756 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
2757 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
2758 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
2759 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
2760 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
2761 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
2762 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
2763 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
2765 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
2766 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
2767 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
2768 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
2769 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
2770 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
2772 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
2773 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
2774 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
2775 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
2776 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
2777 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
2778 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
2779 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
2781 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
2782 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
2783 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
2784 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
2785 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
2786 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
2787 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
2788 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
2789 values in other threads.
2790 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
2791 about object allocation.
2792 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
2793 with a specialised code sequence.
2794 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
2795 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
2796 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
2797 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
2798 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
2799 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
2800 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
2801 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
2802 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
2803 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
2805 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
2807 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
2808 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
2809 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
2810 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
2811 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
2812 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
2813 unboxed format on x86[-64].
2814 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
2815 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
2816 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
2817 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
2818 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
2820 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
2821 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
2822 contains more pertinent information.
2823 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
2824 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
2825 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
2826 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
2827 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
2828 types. (reported by "abhi")
2829 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
2830 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
2831 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2832 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
2833 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
2834 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
2835 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
2836 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
2837 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
2838 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
2839 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2840 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
2841 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2842 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
2843 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
2844 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
2845 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
2846 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
2848 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
2849 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
2850 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
2851 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
2852 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2853 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
2854 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2856 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
2857 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
2858 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
2859 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
2860 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
2861 (no subscription required.)
2862 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
2863 types are weakened less aggressively.
2864 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
2865 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
2866 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
2867 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
2868 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
2869 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
2870 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
2871 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
2873 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
2874 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
2875 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
2876 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
2878 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
2879 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
2880 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
2882 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
2883 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
2884 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
2886 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
2887 is known are 50% faster.
2888 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
2889 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
2891 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
2892 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
2893 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
2894 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
2895 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
2897 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
2898 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
2899 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
2900 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
2901 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
2902 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
2904 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
2905 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
2906 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
2907 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
2908 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
2909 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
2910 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
2911 to Tobias Rittweiler)
2912 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
2913 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
2914 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
2915 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
2916 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
2917 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
2918 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
2919 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
2920 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
2921 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
2922 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
2924 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
2925 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
2926 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
2927 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
2929 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
2930 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
2931 result register (bug 316325).
2932 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
2933 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
2934 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
2935 generate incorrect code.
2936 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
2937 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
2938 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
2939 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
2941 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
2942 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
2943 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
2944 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
2945 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
2946 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
2947 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
2948 from :INITFORM, if any.
2950 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
2951 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
2952 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
2953 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
2954 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
2956 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
2957 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
2958 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
2959 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
2960 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
2961 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2962 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
2963 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
2964 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
2965 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
2967 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
2968 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2969 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
2970 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
2971 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
2972 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
2973 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
2974 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
2975 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
2976 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
2977 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
2978 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
2979 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
2980 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2981 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
2982 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
2983 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
2985 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
2986 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
2987 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
2988 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
2989 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
2990 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
2991 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
2992 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
2994 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
2995 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2996 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
2997 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
2998 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
3000 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
3001 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
3002 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
3003 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
3004 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
3005 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
3006 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
3007 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
3008 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
3009 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
3010 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
3011 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
3012 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
3013 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
3014 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
3015 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
3017 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
3018 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
3019 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
3020 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
3021 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
3022 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
3023 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
3024 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
3025 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
3026 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
3027 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
3028 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
3029 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
3030 recursive errors or deadlock.
3031 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
3032 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
3033 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
3035 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
3036 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
3037 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
3038 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
3039 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
3040 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
3041 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
3042 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
3044 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
3045 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
3046 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
3047 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
3048 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
3049 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
3050 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
3051 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
3053 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
3054 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
3055 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
3056 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
3057 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
3058 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
3059 their constant arguments.
3060 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
3061 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
3062 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
3063 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
3064 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
3065 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
3066 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
3067 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
3068 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
3069 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
3070 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
3071 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
3072 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
3073 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
3074 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
3075 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
3076 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
3077 * improvements to the Windows port:
3078 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
3079 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
3081 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
3082 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
3083 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
3084 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
3085 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
3086 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
3087 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
3088 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
3089 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
3090 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
3091 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
3092 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
3093 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
3094 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
3096 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
3098 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
3099 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
3100 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
3101 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
3102 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
3103 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
3104 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
3105 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
3106 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
3107 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
3109 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
3110 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
3111 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
3112 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
3113 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
3114 compile-time style-warning.
3115 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
3116 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
3117 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
3118 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
3119 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
3120 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
3121 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
3122 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
3123 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
3124 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
3125 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
3126 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
3127 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
3128 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
3129 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
3130 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
3132 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
3133 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
3134 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
3135 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
3136 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
3137 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
3138 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
3139 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
3140 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
3142 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
3144 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
3147 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
3148 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
3149 for the associated fast function is also produced.
3150 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
3152 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
3153 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
3154 special handling by the pretty printer.
3155 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
3156 now interact correctly with type declarations.
3157 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
3158 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
3159 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
3160 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
3161 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
3162 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
3163 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
3164 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
3166 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
3167 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
3168 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
3169 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
3170 object loading function as-it.
3171 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
3172 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
3174 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
3175 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
3177 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
3178 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
3179 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
3180 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
3181 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
3182 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
3183 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
3184 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
3185 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
3187 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
3188 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
3189 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
3190 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
3191 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
3192 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
3193 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
3194 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
3195 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
3196 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
3197 file descriptors when there were none.
3198 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
3199 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
3200 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
3201 pathnames without a directory.
3202 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
3203 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
3204 not signal an error.
3205 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
3206 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
3207 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
3208 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
3209 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
3210 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
3211 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
3212 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
3214 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
3215 after alien stack frames.
3216 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
3218 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
3219 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
3220 generic function across method addition and removal.
3221 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
3222 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
3223 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
3224 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
3226 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
3227 non-local transfer of control.
3228 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
3229 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
3230 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
3231 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
3232 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
3233 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
3234 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
3236 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
3237 owned by other threads anymore.
3238 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
3239 subsequence. (reported by budden)
3240 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
3241 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
3242 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
3243 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
3245 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
3246 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
3247 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
3248 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
3249 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
3250 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
3251 added to the user manual.
3252 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
3253 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
3254 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
3255 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
3256 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
3257 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
3259 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
3261 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
3262 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
3263 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
3264 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
3265 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
3266 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
3267 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
3269 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
3270 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
3272 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
3273 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
3274 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
3275 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
3276 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
3277 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
3278 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
3280 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
3281 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
3283 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
3284 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
3285 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
3286 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
3287 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
3288 type of a variable is made.
3289 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
3290 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
3292 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
3293 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3294 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
3295 (thanks to Michael Weber)
3296 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
3297 (thanks to Michael Weber)
3298 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
3299 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
3300 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
3302 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
3303 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
3304 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
3305 of the type that's the value of this variable.
3306 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
3308 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
3309 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
3310 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
3311 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
3312 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
3313 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
3314 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
3315 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
3316 * improvements to the Windows port:
3317 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
3318 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
3319 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3320 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
3321 to single-float coercions.
3322 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
3323 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
3324 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
3325 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
3326 containing invalid type specifiers.
3327 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
3328 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
3330 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
3331 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
3332 profiles only the current thread.
3333 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
3334 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
3335 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
3336 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
3337 has also additional sorting options.
3338 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
3340 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
3341 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
3342 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
3343 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
3344 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
3345 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
3347 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
3349 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
3350 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
3351 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
3352 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
3353 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
3354 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
3356 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
3357 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
3358 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
3359 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
3360 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
3361 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
3362 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
3363 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
3364 (thanks to James Knight)
3365 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
3366 (thanks to Travis Cross)
3367 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3368 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
3369 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
3370 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
3371 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
3372 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
3373 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
3375 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
3376 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
3377 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
3378 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
3379 use this feature in the meanwhile.
3380 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
3381 adjust thread default control stack size.
3382 * enhancement: improved TIME output
3383 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
3384 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
3385 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
3386 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
3387 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
3388 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
3389 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
3390 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
3392 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
3394 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
3395 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
3396 in normal SPEED policies.
3397 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
3398 in normal SPEED policies.
3399 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
3400 to Sidney Markowitz)
3401 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
3402 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3403 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
3404 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
3405 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
3406 as the second argument.
3407 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
3408 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
3409 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
3411 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
3412 platform word lengths.
3413 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
3414 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
3415 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
3417 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
3418 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
3420 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
3421 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
3422 signaling added in 1.0.14.
3423 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
3424 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
3425 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
3426 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
3427 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
3428 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
3429 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
3430 on threaded platforms.
3431 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
3432 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
3433 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
3434 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
3435 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
3436 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
3437 representation is available.
3438 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
3439 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
3440 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
3441 Francois-Rene Rideau)
3442 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
3443 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
3444 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
3445 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
3446 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
3447 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
3448 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
3449 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
3450 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
3452 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
3453 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
3454 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
3455 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
3456 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
3457 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
3458 traces SETF-functions as well.
3459 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
3460 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
3461 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
3462 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
3464 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
3465 is now more efficient.
3466 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
3467 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
3468 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
3469 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
3470 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
3471 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
3472 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
3473 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
3474 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
3475 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
3476 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
3478 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
3479 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
3480 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
3481 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
3482 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
3483 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
3484 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
3485 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
3486 * improvements to the Windows port:
3487 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
3488 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
3490 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
3491 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
3492 (see documentation for details.)
3493 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
3494 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
3495 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
3496 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
3497 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
3499 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
3500 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
3501 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
3502 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
3503 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
3504 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
3505 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
3506 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
3507 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
3509 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
3510 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
3511 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
3512 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
3513 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
3514 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
3515 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
3517 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
3518 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
3519 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
3520 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
3521 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
3522 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
3523 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
3524 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
3526 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
3527 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
3528 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
3529 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
3530 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
3531 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
3532 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
3533 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
3534 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
3535 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
3536 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
3537 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
3538 known at compile-time.
3539 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
3540 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
3541 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
3543 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
3544 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
3546 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
3547 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
3548 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
3549 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
3550 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
3551 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
3553 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
3555 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
3557 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
3560 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
3561 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
3562 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
3563 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
3564 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
3565 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
3566 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
3567 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
3568 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
3569 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
3570 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
3571 END is smaller then START.
3572 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
3573 calls to profiled functions.
3574 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
3575 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
3576 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
3577 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
3578 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
3579 hash-table usage have been fixed.
3580 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
3581 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
3582 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
3583 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
3584 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
3585 slime to work again.
3587 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
3588 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
3589 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
3590 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
3591 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
3592 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
3593 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
3594 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
3595 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
3596 and will signal an error at runtime.
3597 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
3598 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
3599 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
3601 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
3602 platforms providing stack allocation support.
3603 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
3604 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
3606 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
3607 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
3608 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
3609 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
3610 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
3611 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
3613 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
3614 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
3616 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
3618 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
3619 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
3620 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
3621 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
3622 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
3623 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
3624 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
3625 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
3626 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
3627 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
3628 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
3629 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
3630 a specializer parameter for the method.
3631 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
3632 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
3633 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
3634 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
3635 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
3637 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
3638 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
3640 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
3641 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
3642 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
3643 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
3644 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
3645 the CAS operation was being performed.
3646 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
3647 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
3648 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
3649 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
3652 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
3653 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
3654 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
3655 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
3657 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
3658 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
3659 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
3660 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
3661 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
3662 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
3663 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
3664 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
3665 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
3666 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
3667 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
3668 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
3669 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
3670 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
3671 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
3673 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
3674 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
3675 the underlying file descriptor.
3676 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
3677 could cause buffer-overflows.
3678 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
3679 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
3680 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
3682 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
3684 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
3685 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
3686 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
3687 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
3688 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
3689 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
3692 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
3693 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
3694 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
3695 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
3696 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
3697 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
3698 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
3700 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
3702 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
3703 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
3704 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
3705 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
3706 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
3707 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
3709 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
3710 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
3711 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
3712 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
3713 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
3714 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
3715 objects that can be seen by the GC.
3716 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
3717 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
3718 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
3720 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
3721 as the property-list of a symbol.
3722 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
3723 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
3724 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
3727 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
3728 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
3729 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
3730 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
3731 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
3732 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
3733 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
3734 debugging and introspective support.
3735 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
3736 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
3737 has the owning thread as its value.
3738 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
3739 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
3741 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
3742 "a constant string".
3743 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
3744 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
3745 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
3746 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
3747 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
3748 (depending on the bignum size.)
3749 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
3751 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
3752 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
3754 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
3755 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
3757 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
3758 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
3759 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
3760 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
3761 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
3764 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
3765 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
3766 as a contrib module.
3767 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
3768 significantly faster.
3769 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
3770 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
3771 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
3772 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
3773 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
3774 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
3775 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
3776 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
3777 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3778 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
3779 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
3781 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
3783 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
3784 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
3785 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
3786 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
3787 that use the generational garbage collector
3788 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
3790 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
3791 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
3793 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
3795 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
3796 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
3797 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
3798 system running with GC inhibited.
3799 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
3800 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
3801 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
3802 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
3803 (reported by Peter Graves)
3805 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
3806 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
3807 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
3809 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
3810 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
3811 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
3812 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
3813 documented as unsafe.
3814 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
3815 in multithreaded application code.
3816 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
3817 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
3818 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
3820 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
3821 variants no longer cons.
3822 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
3823 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
3824 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
3825 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
3826 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
3827 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
3828 are significantly faster.
3829 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
3830 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
3831 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
3832 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
3833 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
3834 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
3835 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
3836 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
3837 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
3838 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
3839 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
3841 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
3842 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
3843 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
3844 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3845 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
3846 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
3847 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
3848 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
3849 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
3850 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
3851 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
3852 line in a file is unlimited.
3853 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
3854 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
3855 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
3856 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
3857 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
3858 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
3859 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
3860 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3861 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
3862 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
3863 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
3864 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
3865 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
3866 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
3867 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
3868 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
3869 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
3870 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
3871 experimental until this is fixed.
3872 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
3873 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3874 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
3875 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
3876 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
3878 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
3879 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
3880 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
3881 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
3882 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
3883 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
3885 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
3886 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
3887 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3888 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
3889 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
3890 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
3891 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3892 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
3893 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
3895 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
3896 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
3897 (reported by Andras Simon)
3898 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
3899 bugs remain on x86-64.)
3900 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
3901 funcallable instances.
3902 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
3903 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
3905 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
3906 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3907 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
3908 non-base strings as arguments
3909 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
3911 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
3912 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
3914 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
3915 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
3916 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
3917 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
3918 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
3919 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
3920 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
3921 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
3922 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
3924 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
3925 (thanks to Jon Buller)
3926 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
3927 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
3930 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
3931 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
3932 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
3934 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
3935 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
3936 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
3937 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
3938 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
3940 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
3941 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
3942 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
3943 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3944 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
3945 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3946 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
3947 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
3948 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
3949 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
3950 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3951 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
3952 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
3953 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
3954 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
3955 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
3956 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
3957 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
3958 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
3959 stack frames from alien callbacks.
3960 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3961 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
3962 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
3963 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3965 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
3966 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
3967 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
3968 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
3969 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
3970 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
3971 sb-introspect contrib.
3972 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
3973 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
3974 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
3975 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
3976 users and the general community)
3977 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
3978 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
3979 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
3980 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
3981 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
3982 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
3983 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
3984 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3985 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
3986 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
3987 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
3988 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
3989 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
3990 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
3991 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
3992 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
3994 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
3995 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
3996 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
3997 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
3998 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
3999 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
4000 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
4002 * improvements to the Windows port:
4003 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
4004 to Alastair Bridgewater)
4005 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
4007 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
4008 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
4010 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
4011 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
4012 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
4013 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
4014 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
4015 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
4016 core, and restored on startup.
4017 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
4018 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
4019 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
4020 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
4021 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
4022 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
4023 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
4025 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
4026 (thanks to Zach Beane)
4027 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
4029 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
4030 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
4031 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
4033 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
4034 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
4035 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
4036 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
4037 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
4038 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
4040 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
4041 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
4042 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
4043 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
4044 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
4045 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
4046 (reported by Josip Gracin)
4047 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
4048 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
4049 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
4050 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
4051 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
4052 and don't cause extra consing
4053 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
4054 whose elements types have been declared.
4055 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
4056 ** Support for allocation profiling
4057 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
4058 * Improvements to the Windows port:
4059 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
4060 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
4061 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
4062 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
4064 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
4065 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
4066 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
4067 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
4068 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
4070 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
4071 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
4072 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
4074 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
4075 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
4076 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
4077 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
4078 with non-variable places
4079 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
4080 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
4081 code more stable against memory faults.
4082 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
4083 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
4084 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
4085 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
4088 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
4089 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
4090 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
4091 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
4092 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
4093 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
4094 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
4095 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
4096 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
4097 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
4098 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
4099 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
4100 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
4102 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
4103 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
4104 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
4105 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
4106 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
4107 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
4108 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
4110 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
4111 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
4113 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
4114 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
4115 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
4116 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
4117 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
4118 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
4119 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
4120 to the single-stepper REPL.
4121 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
4122 for a type now works.
4123 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
4125 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
4126 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
4127 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
4128 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
4129 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
4130 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
4131 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
4132 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
4134 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
4135 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
4136 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
4137 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
4138 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
4139 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
4140 whose bindings are modified
4141 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
4142 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
4143 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
4144 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
4146 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
4147 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
4148 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
4149 as specified by AMOP.
4150 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
4152 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
4153 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4154 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
4155 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
4156 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
4157 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
4158 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
4159 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
4160 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
4161 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
4162 better type inference.
4163 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
4164 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
4165 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
4166 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
4167 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
4168 (reported by Bruno Haible)
4169 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
4170 initialization of methods can now be used to override
4171 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
4173 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
4174 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
4175 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
4176 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
4177 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
4179 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
4180 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
4181 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
4182 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
4183 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
4184 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
4185 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
4186 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
4187 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
4188 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
4189 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
4190 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
4191 (reported by James Y Knight).
4192 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
4193 argument for shadowing by local functions.
4194 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
4196 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
4197 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
4198 with type-inference.
4199 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
4200 types in some cases.
4201 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
4202 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
4203 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
4205 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
4206 * thread-safety improvements:
4207 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
4208 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
4209 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
4211 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
4212 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
4214 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
4215 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
4216 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
4218 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
4219 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
4220 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
4221 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
4222 class became finalizeable.
4223 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
4224 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
4225 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
4226 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
4228 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
4229 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
4230 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
4231 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
4232 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
4233 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
4234 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
4235 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
4236 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
4237 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
4238 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
4239 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
4240 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
4241 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
4242 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
4243 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
4244 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
4245 * minor code generation optimizations:
4246 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
4247 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
4248 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
4249 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
4250 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
4251 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4252 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
4253 return its argument.
4255 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
4256 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
4258 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
4260 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
4261 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
4262 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
4263 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
4264 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
4265 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
4266 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
4267 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
4268 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
4269 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
4270 the low-level debugger.
4271 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
4272 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
4273 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
4274 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
4276 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
4277 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
4278 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
4280 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
4281 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
4282 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
4283 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
4284 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
4285 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
4286 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
4287 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
4288 (reported by James Y Knight)
4289 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
4290 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
4291 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
4292 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
4293 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
4294 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
4295 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
4296 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
4297 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
4298 workaround for bug 403.)
4299 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
4300 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
4301 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4302 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
4304 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
4305 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
4306 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
4308 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
4309 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
4310 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
4311 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
4312 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
4314 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
4316 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
4317 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
4318 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
4321 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
4322 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
4323 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
4324 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
4325 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
4326 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
4327 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
4328 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
4329 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
4330 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
4331 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
4332 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
4333 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
4334 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
4335 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
4336 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
4337 documentation on package locks for details.
4338 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
4340 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
4341 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
4342 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
4343 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
4344 immediately available from the stream
4345 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
4346 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
4347 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
4348 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
4350 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
4351 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
4352 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
4354 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
4355 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
4356 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
4358 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
4359 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
4360 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
4361 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
4363 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
4364 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
4365 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
4366 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
4367 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
4368 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
4369 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
4370 ** sb-grovel supported
4371 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
4372 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
4373 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
4374 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
4375 ** floating-point exception handling support
4376 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
4377 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4378 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4379 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
4380 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
4381 structure accessors.
4382 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
4384 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
4385 defaults for optional parameters.
4386 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
4387 function, which is already optimized.
4389 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
4390 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
4391 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
4392 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
4393 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
4394 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
4395 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
4396 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
4397 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
4398 this change is to make it easier to distribute
4399 location-independent binaries.
4400 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
4401 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
4403 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
4404 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
4405 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
4406 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
4407 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
4408 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
4409 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
4410 Alastair Bridgewater)
4411 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
4412 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
4413 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
4414 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
4415 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
4416 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
4417 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
4418 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
4419 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
4420 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
4421 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
4422 (thanks to James Knight)
4423 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
4424 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
4426 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
4427 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
4428 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
4429 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
4430 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
4431 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
4432 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
4433 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
4434 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
4435 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
4436 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
4437 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
4438 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
4439 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
4440 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
4441 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
4442 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
4443 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
4444 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
4445 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
4446 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
4448 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
4449 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
4450 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
4451 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
4452 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
4453 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
4455 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
4456 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
4457 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
4458 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
4459 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
4460 many others over the years)
4461 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
4462 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
4463 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
4465 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
4466 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
4467 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
4468 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
4469 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
4470 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
4472 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
4474 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
4475 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
4476 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
4477 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
4478 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
4479 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
4480 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
4481 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
4482 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
4483 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
4484 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
4485 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4486 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
4487 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
4489 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
4490 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
4491 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
4492 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
4493 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
4494 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
4495 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
4496 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
4497 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
4498 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
4499 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
4500 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
4501 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
4502 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
4503 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
4504 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
4505 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
4506 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
4507 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
4508 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
4510 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
4511 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
4512 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
4513 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
4514 index variables in LOOP
4515 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
4516 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4517 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
4518 that don't have a docstring
4520 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
4521 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
4522 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
4523 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
4524 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
4525 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
4526 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
4527 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
4528 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
4529 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
4530 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
4531 Costanza's "Closer" project)
4532 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
4533 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
4535 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
4536 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
4537 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
4538 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
4539 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
4540 and Pascal Costanza)
4541 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
4542 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
4543 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
4544 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
4545 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
4546 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
4547 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
4548 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
4549 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
4550 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
4551 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4552 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
4553 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4554 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
4555 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
4556 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
4557 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
4558 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
4559 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
4561 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
4562 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4563 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
4564 floating point index variable or a negative step.
4566 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
4567 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
4568 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
4569 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
4570 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
4571 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4572 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
4573 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
4574 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
4575 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
4576 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
4577 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
4578 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
4579 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
4580 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
4581 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
4582 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
4583 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
4584 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
4585 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
4586 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
4587 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
4588 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
4589 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
4590 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
4591 and dump core on SIGQUIT
4593 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
4594 from their parents (see manual)
4595 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
4596 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
4597 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
4598 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
4599 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
4600 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
4602 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4603 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
4604 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
4605 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
4607 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
4608 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
4609 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
4611 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
4612 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
4613 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
4614 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
4615 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
4616 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
4617 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
4618 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
4619 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
4620 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
4621 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
4622 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
4623 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
4624 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
4626 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
4627 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
4628 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
4630 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
4631 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
4633 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
4634 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
4635 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
4636 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
4637 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
4638 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
4639 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
4640 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
4641 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
4643 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
4644 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
4645 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
4646 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
4647 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
4648 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
4650 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
4652 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
4653 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
4654 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
4655 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
4656 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
4657 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
4658 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
4659 classes; see the manual for more details;
4660 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
4661 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
4662 requested slot ordering.
4664 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
4666 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
4667 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
4669 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
4671 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
4672 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
4673 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
4674 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
4675 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4676 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
4677 the :method-class keyword argument.
4679 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
4680 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
4681 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
4682 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
4683 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
4684 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
4685 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
4686 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
4687 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
4688 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
4689 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
4691 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
4692 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
4693 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
4694 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
4695 is switched on or off
4696 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
4697 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
4698 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
4700 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
4701 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
4702 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
4703 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
4704 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
4705 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
4706 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
4707 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
4708 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
4710 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
4711 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
4712 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
4713 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
4714 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
4715 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
4716 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
4718 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
4719 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
4720 not prevent gc from running
4721 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
4722 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
4723 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
4724 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
4725 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
4726 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
4727 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
4728 an inline 32-bit rotation.
4730 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
4731 there is only one thread in the session
4732 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
4733 written to in another
4734 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
4735 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
4737 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
4738 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
4740 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
4741 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4742 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
4743 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
4744 the orignal arguments.
4745 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
4747 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
4748 name a compiled function.
4749 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
4750 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
4751 derivation were fixed.
4752 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
4753 list-form FUNCTION type.
4754 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
4755 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
4756 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
4758 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
4759 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
4760 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
4761 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
4762 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
4763 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
4765 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
4766 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
4767 of a select system call
4768 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
4770 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
4771 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
4773 * various error reporting improvements.
4774 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
4775 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
4776 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
4777 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
4778 code and foreign data with the same name.
4780 ** added x86-64 support
4781 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
4782 objects instead of thread ids
4783 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
4784 starting up or going down
4785 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
4786 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
4787 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
4788 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
4789 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
4790 an inappropriate moment
4791 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
4792 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
4793 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
4794 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4795 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
4796 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
4797 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
4799 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
4800 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
4801 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
4802 range before calling Unix time functions
4804 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
4805 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
4806 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
4807 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
4808 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
4809 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
4810 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
4811 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
4812 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
4813 for more information.
4814 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
4815 pathname is a directory pathname.
4816 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
4817 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
4819 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
4820 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
4821 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
4822 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
4823 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
4824 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
4826 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
4827 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
4828 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
4829 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
4830 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
4831 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
4832 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
4833 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
4834 the PowerPC platform.
4835 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
4836 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
4838 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
4839 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
4840 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
4841 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
4842 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
4843 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
4845 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
4846 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
4847 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
4848 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
4849 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
4850 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4851 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
4852 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
4853 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
4854 as the name of a type, or vice versa
4855 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
4856 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
4857 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
4858 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
4859 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
4860 FLET or MACROLET forms
4861 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
4863 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
4865 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
4868 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
4869 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
4870 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
4871 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
4872 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
4873 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
4874 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
4875 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
4876 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
4877 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
4878 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
4879 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
4880 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
4881 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
4882 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
4883 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
4884 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
4885 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
4886 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
4887 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
4888 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
4889 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
4891 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4892 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
4893 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
4894 a file has the stream as its datum.
4895 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
4896 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
4897 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
4898 a correct expected type
4899 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
4900 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
4901 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
4902 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
4903 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
4904 on broadcast streams.
4906 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
4907 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
4908 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
4909 --disable-debugger option instead.
4910 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
4912 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
4913 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
4914 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
4915 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
4916 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
4917 has been added to the manual.
4918 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
4919 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
4920 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
4921 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
4922 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
4923 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
4924 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
4925 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
4926 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
4927 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
4929 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
4930 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
4931 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
4932 (reported by Rajat Datta).
4933 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
4934 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
4936 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
4937 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
4938 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
4939 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
4940 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
4941 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
4942 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
4943 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
4944 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
4945 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
4946 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
4947 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
4948 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
4949 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
4950 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
4951 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
4952 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4953 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
4954 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
4956 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
4958 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
4959 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
4960 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
4961 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
4962 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
4964 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
4965 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
4966 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
4967 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
4968 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
4969 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
4970 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
4972 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4973 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
4974 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
4976 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
4977 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
4978 types for complex arguments better.
4979 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
4981 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
4982 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
4984 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
4985 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
4986 resulting in GC crashes.
4987 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
4989 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
4992 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
4993 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
4994 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
4995 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
4996 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
4997 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
4998 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
4999 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
5000 returning to the top level.
5001 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
5002 global optimization policy.
5003 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
5004 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
5005 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
5007 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
5008 various incompatible changes.
5009 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
5010 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
5011 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
5012 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
5013 level local call to FOO".
5014 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
5015 now have more legible printed representation
5016 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
5017 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
5018 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
5019 explicitly requested.
5020 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
5021 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
5022 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
5023 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
5024 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
5026 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
5027 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
5028 (reported by Lutz Euler)
5029 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
5030 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
5031 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
5032 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
5033 the specializer is now possible.
5034 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
5035 face of package deletion.
5036 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
5037 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
5038 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
5039 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
5040 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
5041 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
5042 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
5043 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
5044 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
5045 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
5047 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5048 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
5049 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
5050 correctable errors to be signalled.
5051 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
5052 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
5055 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
5056 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
5057 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
5059 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
5060 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
5061 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
5062 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
5063 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
5064 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
5065 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
5066 related to the ~@F format directive.
5067 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
5069 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
5070 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
5071 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
5072 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
5074 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
5076 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
5077 coerce function designators to functions.
5078 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
5079 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
5080 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
5081 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
5082 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
5083 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
5084 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
5085 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
5086 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
5087 start of the buffer at the next read.
5088 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
5089 passing it through to OPEN.
5090 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
5091 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
5092 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
5093 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
5094 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
5095 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
5096 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
5097 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
5099 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
5100 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
5101 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
5102 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
5103 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
5104 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
5106 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5107 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
5108 secondary constituent character trait.
5109 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
5111 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
5113 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
5114 works more reliably.
5115 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
5116 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
5117 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
5119 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
5120 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
5122 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
5123 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
5124 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
5125 and reloading shared object files.
5126 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
5127 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
5129 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
5130 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
5131 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
5133 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
5134 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
5136 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
5138 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
5139 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
5140 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
5141 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
5142 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
5143 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
5144 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
5146 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
5147 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
5149 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
5150 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
5151 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
5152 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
5153 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
5155 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
5156 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
5157 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
5158 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
5159 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
5160 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
5161 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
5162 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
5163 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
5164 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
5165 lisp characters are not eight bits.
5166 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5167 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
5168 the correct number of arguments.
5169 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
5170 to displaced strings.
5171 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
5172 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
5174 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
5175 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
5176 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
5177 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
5178 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
5179 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
5180 available at runtime.
5181 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
5182 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
5183 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
5184 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
5185 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
5186 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
5187 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
5188 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
5189 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
5190 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
5191 of lambda-list keywords.
5192 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
5193 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
5195 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
5196 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
5197 (reported by Paul Dietz)
5198 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
5199 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
5200 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
5201 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
5203 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
5204 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
5205 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
5206 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
5207 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
5209 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
5210 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
5211 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
5212 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
5213 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
5214 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5215 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
5217 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
5218 parameters correctly.
5219 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
5220 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
5221 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
5223 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
5226 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
5227 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
5228 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
5229 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
5231 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
5232 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
5233 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
5234 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
5235 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
5236 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
5237 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
5238 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
5239 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
5241 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
5242 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
5244 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
5246 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
5247 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
5248 (reported by Bruno Haible)
5249 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
5251 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
5252 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5253 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
5254 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
5255 (reported by David Morse)
5256 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
5257 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5258 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
5259 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5260 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
5261 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5262 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
5263 now exists, an signals an error.
5264 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
5265 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
5266 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
5267 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
5268 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5269 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
5270 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
5271 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
5272 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
5273 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
5274 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
5275 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
5277 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
5278 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
5279 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
5280 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
5281 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
5282 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
5283 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
5284 specialized array element types.
5285 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
5286 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
5287 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
5288 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
5289 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
5290 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
5291 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
5292 Wragg for the simple test case)
5293 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5294 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
5296 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
5297 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
5298 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
5299 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
5300 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
5302 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
5304 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
5305 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
5306 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
5307 references to global functions.
5308 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
5310 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
5312 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
5313 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
5314 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
5315 supported platforms.
5316 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
5317 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
5318 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
5319 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
5320 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
5321 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
5322 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
5323 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
5324 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
5325 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
5326 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
5327 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
5328 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
5330 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
5331 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
5332 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
5333 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
5334 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
5335 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
5337 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
5338 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
5340 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
5341 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
5342 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
5343 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5344 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
5345 returns the right answer.
5346 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
5348 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
5350 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
5351 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
5353 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
5354 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
5356 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
5357 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
5358 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
5359 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
5360 the supported interface.
5361 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
5362 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
5363 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
5364 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
5365 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
5366 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
5367 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
5368 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
5369 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
5370 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
5371 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
5372 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
5373 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
5374 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
5375 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
5376 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
5377 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
5378 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
5379 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
5380 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
5381 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
5382 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
5383 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
5384 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
5385 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
5386 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
5387 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5388 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
5389 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
5391 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
5392 * incompatible change: the internal functions
5393 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
5394 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
5395 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
5396 instead of the old functions.
5397 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
5398 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
5400 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
5401 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
5403 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
5404 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
5405 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
5406 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
5408 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
5409 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
5410 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
5411 (reported by Rick Taube)
5412 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
5413 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
5414 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
5415 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
5417 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
5418 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
5419 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
5420 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
5421 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
5422 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
5423 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
5424 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
5425 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
5426 represented relative to default pathnames.
5427 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
5428 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
5429 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
5431 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
5432 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
5433 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
5435 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5436 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
5437 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
5438 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
5440 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
5442 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
5443 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
5444 conditional newlines.
5445 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
5446 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
5447 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
5449 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
5450 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
5452 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
5453 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
5454 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
5455 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
5456 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
5457 compiled in unconditionally.
5458 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
5459 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
5460 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
5461 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
5462 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
5464 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
5465 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
5466 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
5467 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
5468 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
5469 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
5470 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
5471 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
5472 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
5473 an implementation-internal package.
5474 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
5476 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
5477 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
5478 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
5479 bodies are now more legible.
5480 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
5481 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
5482 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
5483 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
5484 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
5485 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
5486 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
5488 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
5489 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
5490 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
5491 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
5492 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
5493 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
5494 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
5495 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
5496 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
5497 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
5499 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
5500 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
5501 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
5502 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
5503 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
5504 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
5505 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
5506 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
5507 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
5508 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
5509 system even when most of them are idle
5510 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
5511 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
5512 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
5514 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
5515 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
5516 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
5517 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
5518 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
5520 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
5521 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
5522 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
5523 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
5524 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
5525 string for information on the protocol.
5526 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
5527 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
5529 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
5530 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
5532 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
5533 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
5534 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
5535 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
5536 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
5537 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
5539 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
5540 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
5542 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
5543 move between its address being taken and the call to
5544 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
5545 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
5546 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
5547 instances corresponding to C structs.
5549 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
5550 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
5551 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
5552 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
5553 has implications for memory management of client code
5554 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
5555 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
5556 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
5557 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
5558 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
5559 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
5560 quality should be considered deprecated.
5561 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
5562 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
5563 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
5564 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
5565 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
5567 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
5568 designator as the defaults argument.
5569 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
5570 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
5571 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5572 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
5573 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
5575 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
5577 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
5578 (thanks to Zach Beane)
5579 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
5580 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
5581 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5582 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
5584 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
5585 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5586 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
5587 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
5588 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
5589 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
5590 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5591 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
5592 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
5593 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
5594 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
5595 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5596 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
5597 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
5598 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
5599 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
5600 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
5602 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
5603 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
5604 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
5606 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
5607 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5608 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
5609 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
5610 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
5611 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
5612 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5613 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
5614 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
5616 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
5617 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
5619 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
5620 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
5622 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
5623 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
5624 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
5625 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
5627 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
5628 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
5629 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
5630 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
5631 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
5632 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
5633 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
5634 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
5636 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
5637 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
5638 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
5640 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
5641 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
5643 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5644 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
5646 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
5647 from local to shared slots.
5648 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
5649 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
5650 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
5651 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
5653 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
5654 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
5655 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
5656 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
5657 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
5658 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
5659 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
5660 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
5661 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
5663 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
5665 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
5667 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
5668 print using #P"..." syntax.
5670 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
5671 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
5672 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
5673 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
5674 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
5675 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
5676 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
5677 * [placeholder for DX summary]
5678 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
5679 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
5680 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
5681 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
5682 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
5683 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
5684 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
5685 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
5686 the test case to Dave Roberts)
5687 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
5688 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
5689 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
5690 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
5691 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
5692 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
5693 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
5694 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
5695 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
5696 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
5697 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
5698 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
5699 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5700 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
5701 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
5704 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
5705 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
5706 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
5707 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
5708 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
5709 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
5710 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
5711 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
5712 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
5713 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5714 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
5715 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
5716 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
5718 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
5719 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
5721 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
5722 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
5723 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
5724 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
5725 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5726 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
5728 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
5729 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
5730 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
5732 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
5734 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
5736 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
5737 their output stream on EOF from read.
5738 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
5739 have been read to end-of-file.
5740 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
5742 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
5743 description of determination of which consecutive characters
5745 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
5746 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
5747 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
5748 less than 10 works correctly.
5749 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
5750 more than 10 works correctly.
5751 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
5752 the readtable currently in effect.
5754 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
5755 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
5756 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
5757 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
5758 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
5759 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
5760 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
5761 should usually be replaced by
5762 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
5763 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
5764 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
5765 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
5766 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
5767 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
5768 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
5769 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
5771 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
5772 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
5773 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
5774 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
5775 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
5776 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
5777 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
5778 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
5779 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
5780 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
5781 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
5782 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
5783 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
5785 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
5786 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
5787 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
5788 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
5789 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
5790 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
5791 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
5792 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
5793 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
5794 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
5795 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
5796 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
5797 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
5798 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
5799 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5800 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
5801 non-local entry points.
5802 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
5804 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
5805 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
5807 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
5808 host is already defined.
5809 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
5811 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
5812 or not a character is whitespace.
5813 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
5814 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
5815 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
5817 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
5818 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
5820 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
5822 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
5823 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
5824 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
5825 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
5826 designator argument does not designate a stream.
5827 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
5828 examining the synonym.
5829 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
5831 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
5832 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
5834 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
5835 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
5836 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
5837 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
5838 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
5839 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
5840 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
5841 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
5842 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
5843 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
5844 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
5845 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
5847 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
5848 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
5849 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
5850 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
5851 stream position information.
5852 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
5853 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
5854 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
5855 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
5856 (reported by Paul Dietz)
5857 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
5859 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
5860 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
5862 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
5863 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5864 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
5865 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
5866 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
5867 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
5868 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
5870 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
5872 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
5873 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
5874 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
5875 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
5876 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
5877 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
5878 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
5879 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
5880 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
5881 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
5882 the "SYS" logical host.
5883 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
5884 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
5885 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
5886 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
5887 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
5888 now each have their own history, command character, and other
5889 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
5890 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5891 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
5893 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
5894 shift greater than 32.
5895 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
5896 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
5897 in some circumstances.
5899 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
5900 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
5901 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
5902 environments like SLIME.
5903 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
5904 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
5905 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
5906 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
5907 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
5908 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
5909 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
5910 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
5911 argument types for all arguments.
5912 * various threading fixes
5913 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
5914 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
5915 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
5916 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
5918 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
5919 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
5920 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
5921 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
5922 arguments to a full call.
5923 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
5924 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
5925 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
5926 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
5928 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
5929 inserts a space where necessary.
5930 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
5931 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
5932 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
5933 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
5934 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
5935 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
5936 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
5937 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
5938 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
5939 counter now raises a meaningful error.
5940 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
5941 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
5943 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
5944 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
5945 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
5947 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
5949 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5950 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
5951 argument and negative second.
5952 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
5953 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
5954 interval, containing 0.
5955 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
5957 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
5958 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
5960 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
5961 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
5962 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
5963 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
5964 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
5965 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
5966 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
5967 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
5968 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
5969 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
5970 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
5971 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
5972 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
5973 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
5974 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
5975 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
5976 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
5977 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
5978 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
5979 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
5980 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
5981 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
5982 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
5983 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
5984 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
5985 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
5986 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
5987 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
5988 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
5990 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
5991 platform now returns the right answer.
5992 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
5993 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
5994 precomputation is now tunable.
5995 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
5996 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
5997 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
5998 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
5999 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
6000 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
6001 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
6002 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
6003 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
6004 has been added for the alpha.
6005 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
6006 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
6007 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
6008 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
6009 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
6010 MEMBER-types to numeric.
6011 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
6013 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
6014 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
6015 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
6017 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
6018 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
6019 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
6020 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
6021 might be pseudo-atomic.
6022 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
6023 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
6025 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
6027 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
6029 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
6030 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
6031 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
6032 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
6033 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
6034 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
6036 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6037 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
6038 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
6039 small float arguments.
6040 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
6042 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
6043 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
6044 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
6045 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
6046 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
6047 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
6049 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
6051 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
6052 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
6053 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
6054 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
6055 with negative last argument.
6056 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
6057 an error during type derivation.
6058 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
6060 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
6061 generates a 32-bit binary.
6062 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
6063 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
6064 data structures referred to above).
6066 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
6067 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
6068 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
6069 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
6070 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
6071 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
6072 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
6073 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
6074 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
6075 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
6076 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
6077 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
6079 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
6080 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
6082 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
6083 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
6084 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
6085 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
6086 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
6087 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
6088 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
6089 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
6090 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
6091 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
6092 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
6093 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
6094 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
6095 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
6096 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
6097 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
6098 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
6099 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
6100 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
6101 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
6102 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
6103 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
6104 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
6105 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
6106 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
6107 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
6108 optimization quality.
6109 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
6110 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
6111 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
6112 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
6113 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
6114 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6115 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
6116 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
6117 types form a lattice under type intersection.
6118 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
6119 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
6120 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
6121 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
6122 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
6123 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
6124 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
6125 calling the generic function.
6126 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
6127 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
6128 obscure ANSI requirements
6130 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
6131 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
6132 garbage, confusing the compiler.
6133 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
6134 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
6135 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
6136 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
6137 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
6138 circumstances could go off-by-one.
6139 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
6141 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
6142 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
6143 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
6144 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
6145 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
6146 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
6147 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
6148 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
6149 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
6150 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
6151 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
6152 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
6153 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
6154 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
6155 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
6156 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
6157 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
6158 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
6159 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
6160 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
6162 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
6163 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
6164 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
6165 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
6167 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
6168 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
6169 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
6170 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
6171 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
6172 provide helpful disassembly notes.
6173 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
6174 the class in more cases than previously.
6175 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
6176 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
6177 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
6178 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
6179 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
6180 without lambda list.
6181 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
6182 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
6183 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6184 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
6185 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
6186 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
6188 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
6189 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
6190 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
6192 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
6193 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
6194 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
6195 were silently accepted).
6196 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
6197 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
6198 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
6199 to warn on static type mismatches and function
6200 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
6201 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
6202 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
6203 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
6204 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
6205 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
6206 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
6207 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
6208 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
6209 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
6211 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
6212 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
6213 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
6214 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
6215 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
6216 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
6218 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
6219 keywords or constants is permissible.
6220 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
6221 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
6222 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
6223 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
6224 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
6225 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
6226 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
6227 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
6229 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
6230 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
6231 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
6232 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
6233 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
6234 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
6235 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
6237 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
6239 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
6240 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
6241 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
6242 respectively change and preserve the value.
6243 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
6244 is now better at handling symbol macros.
6245 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
6246 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
6247 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
6248 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
6249 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
6250 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
6251 their use properly signals an error now.
6252 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
6253 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
6254 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
6255 * fixed simple vector readable printing
6256 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
6257 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
6258 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
6259 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
6260 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
6261 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
6262 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
6263 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
6264 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
6265 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
6266 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
6267 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6268 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
6269 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
6270 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
6271 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
6272 causes a type error.
6273 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
6274 association between the name and a class.
6275 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
6276 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
6277 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
6278 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
6279 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
6280 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
6282 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
6283 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
6284 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
6285 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
6287 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
6288 which its argument is a member.
6289 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
6290 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
6291 otherwise, it creates a new class.
6292 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
6293 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
6294 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
6295 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
6296 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
6297 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
6299 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
6300 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
6301 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
6302 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
6303 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
6304 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
6305 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
6307 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
6308 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
6309 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
6310 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
6311 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
6312 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
6313 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
6314 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
6315 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
6316 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
6317 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
6318 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
6319 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6320 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
6322 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
6323 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
6324 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
6325 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
6326 superclasses are applied.
6327 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
6328 no method was removed.
6329 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
6330 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
6331 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
6332 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
6334 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
6336 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
6337 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
6338 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
6339 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
6340 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
6341 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
6342 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
6343 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
6344 function lambda list.
6345 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
6347 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
6348 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
6349 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
6350 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
6352 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
6353 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
6354 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
6355 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
6356 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
6357 they look for GNU "make".
6359 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
6360 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
6361 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
6362 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
6364 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
6365 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
6366 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
6367 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
6368 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
6369 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
6370 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
6371 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
6372 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
6373 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
6375 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
6376 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
6377 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
6378 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
6379 libraries, and will know who they are.
6380 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
6381 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
6382 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
6383 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
6384 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
6385 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
6386 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
6387 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
6389 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
6390 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
6391 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
6392 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
6393 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
6394 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
6395 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
6396 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
6397 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
6398 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
6399 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
6400 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
6402 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
6403 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
6404 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
6405 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
6406 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
6407 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
6408 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
6409 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
6410 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
6412 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
6413 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
6414 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
6415 this you were probably losing anyway.
6416 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
6417 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
6418 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
6419 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
6420 with names from the CL package.
6421 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
6422 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
6423 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
6424 documentation string.
6425 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6426 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
6428 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
6429 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
6430 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
6431 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
6433 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
6434 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
6436 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
6437 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
6438 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
6440 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
6441 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
6442 arguments contain duplicated elements.
6443 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
6444 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
6445 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
6446 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
6447 in question is unbound.
6448 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
6449 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
6450 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
6451 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
6452 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
6454 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
6456 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
6457 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
6458 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
6459 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
6460 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
6461 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
6462 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
6463 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
6464 by Antonio Martinez)
6465 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
6466 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
6467 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
6468 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
6469 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
6470 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
6471 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
6472 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6473 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
6474 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
6475 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
6476 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
6477 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
6478 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
6479 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
6480 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
6481 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
6482 on malformed property lists;
6484 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
6485 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
6486 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
6487 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
6488 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
6489 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
6490 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
6491 modules in this release include:
6492 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
6493 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
6494 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
6495 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
6496 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
6498 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
6499 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
6500 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
6501 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
6502 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
6503 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
6504 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
6505 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
6507 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
6508 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
6509 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
6510 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
6511 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
6512 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
6513 the lexical environment.
6514 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
6515 unprintable packages can now be defined.
6516 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
6517 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
6518 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
6519 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
6520 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
6521 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
6522 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
6523 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
6524 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
6525 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
6526 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
6527 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
6528 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
6529 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
6530 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
6531 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
6532 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
6533 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
6534 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
6535 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
6536 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
6537 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
6538 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
6540 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
6541 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
6542 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
6543 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6544 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
6545 not just nonnegative fixnums;
6546 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
6547 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
6548 freshly-consed result bit-array);
6549 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
6551 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
6552 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
6554 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
6555 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
6556 cases are accurately computed;
6557 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
6558 if it is in the last clause;
6559 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
6561 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
6562 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
6563 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
6564 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
6566 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
6567 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
6568 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
6569 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
6570 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
6572 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
6573 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
6574 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
6575 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
6577 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6578 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
6579 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
6580 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
6581 not cause a type error;
6582 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
6584 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
6585 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
6586 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
6587 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
6588 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
6589 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
6590 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
6591 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
6593 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
6594 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
6595 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
6596 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
6597 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
6598 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
6600 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
6601 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
6603 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
6604 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
6605 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
6606 only for symbols in the CL package.
6607 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
6608 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
6609 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
6610 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
6611 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
6613 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6614 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
6615 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
6616 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
6617 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
6618 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
6619 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
6620 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
6621 conditional loop clause;
6622 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
6623 signals a type error iff it should.
6624 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6625 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
6626 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
6627 argument) no longer signals an error;
6628 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
6629 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
6630 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
6632 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
6633 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
6634 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
6636 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
6637 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
6638 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
6639 functionality on said platforms verified.
6640 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
6641 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
6643 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
6644 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
6645 component indicating that directory.
6646 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
6647 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
6648 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
6649 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
6650 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
6651 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
6653 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
6654 primary methods with no specializers;
6655 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
6657 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
6658 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
6659 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
6660 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
6662 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
6663 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
6664 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
6666 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
6667 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
6668 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
6669 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
6670 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
6671 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
6672 class STANDARD-CLASS;
6673 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
6674 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6675 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
6676 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
6678 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
6679 value producing form;
6680 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
6681 variables are bound and made to have no value;
6682 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
6684 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
6685 is not a valid sequence index;
6686 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
6687 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
6688 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
6689 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
6691 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
6692 symbol-macro places;
6693 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
6694 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
6696 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
6698 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
6700 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
6701 invariant when deleting code.
6702 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
6703 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
6705 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
6706 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
6707 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
6709 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
6710 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
6712 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
6713 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
6714 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
6715 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
6717 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
6718 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
6719 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
6720 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
6722 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
6723 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
6724 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
6725 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
6726 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
6727 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
6728 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
6729 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
6730 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
6731 sbcl and .core files.)
6732 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
6733 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
6734 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
6735 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
6736 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
6737 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
6738 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
6740 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
6741 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
6742 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
6743 argument precedence order.
6744 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
6745 derived types contradict their declared type.
6746 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
6747 so it can be non-toplevel.
6748 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
6749 implementation of DEFMACRO).
6750 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
6751 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
6752 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
6754 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
6755 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
6756 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
6757 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
6758 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
6759 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
6760 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
6761 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
6762 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
6763 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
6764 symbol macro only once
6765 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
6766 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
6767 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
6770 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
6771 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
6772 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
6773 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
6774 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
6775 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
6776 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
6777 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
6778 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
6779 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6780 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
6781 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
6783 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
6784 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
6785 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
6786 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
6787 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6788 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
6790 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
6792 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
6793 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
6794 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
6795 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
6796 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6797 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
6798 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
6799 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
6800 ways in different special cases
6801 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
6803 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
6804 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
6805 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
6806 are no longer optimized away.
6807 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
6808 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
6809 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
6810 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
6811 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
6812 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
6813 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
6814 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
6817 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
6818 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
6819 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
6820 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
6821 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
6822 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
6823 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
6825 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
6826 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
6827 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
6828 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
6829 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
6830 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
6831 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
6832 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
6833 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
6834 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
6835 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
6836 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
6837 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
6838 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
6839 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
6840 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
6841 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
6842 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6843 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
6844 that are names of constants or global variables.
6845 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
6846 alien routines with docstrings.
6847 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
6848 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
6850 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
6851 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
6852 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
6853 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
6854 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
6855 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
6856 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
6857 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
6858 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
6859 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
6860 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
6861 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
6862 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
6863 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
6864 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
6865 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
6866 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
6867 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
6868 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
6869 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
6870 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
6871 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
6872 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
6874 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
6875 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
6877 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
6878 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
6879 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
6880 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
6881 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
6882 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
6883 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
6884 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
6885 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
6886 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
6888 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
6889 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
6890 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
6891 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
6892 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
6893 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
6894 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
6895 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
6896 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
6897 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
6898 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
6899 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
6900 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
6901 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
6902 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
6903 is no longer a static symbol.)
6905 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
6906 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
6907 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
6908 bootstrapping under CLISP.
6909 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
6911 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
6912 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
6914 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
6915 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
6916 to David Lichteblau)
6917 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
6918 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
6919 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
6921 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
6922 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
6923 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
6924 count as they should.
6925 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
6926 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
6927 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
6928 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
6929 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
6930 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
6931 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
6932 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
6933 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
6934 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
6935 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
6936 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
6937 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
6938 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
6939 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
6941 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
6942 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
6943 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
6945 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
6947 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
6948 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
6949 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
6950 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
6951 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
6952 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
6953 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
6955 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
6956 to Christophe Rhodes)
6957 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
6958 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
6959 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
6960 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
6961 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
6962 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\x7fB") returns
6963 |A
\x7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
6965 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
6966 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
6967 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
6968 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
6969 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
6970 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
6971 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
6972 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
6973 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
6974 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
6975 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
6976 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
6977 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
6979 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
6980 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
6981 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
6982 INFO database to support symbol macros.
6983 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
6984 (thanks to coreythomas)
6985 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
6986 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
6987 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
6988 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
6989 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
6991 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
6992 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
6993 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
6994 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
6995 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
6996 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
6997 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
6998 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
6999 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
7000 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
7001 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
7002 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
7003 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
7005 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
7006 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
7009 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
7010 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
7011 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
7012 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
7013 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
7014 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
7015 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
7016 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
7017 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
7018 systems than the old 4M value was)
7019 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
7020 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
7021 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
7022 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
7023 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
7024 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
7025 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
7027 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
7028 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
7029 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
7030 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
7031 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
7033 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
7034 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
7035 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
7036 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
7037 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
7038 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
7039 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
7040 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
7042 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
7043 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
7044 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
7045 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
7046 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
7047 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
7048 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
7049 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
7051 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
7052 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
7053 * several changes related to debugging:
7054 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
7055 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
7056 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
7057 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
7058 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
7059 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
7060 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
7063 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
7065 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
7066 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
7067 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
7068 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
7069 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
7070 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
7071 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
7072 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
7074 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
7075 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
7076 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
7077 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
7078 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
7079 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
7080 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
7081 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
7082 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
7083 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
7084 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
7085 file format number to change again.
7087 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
7088 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
7089 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
7090 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
7092 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
7093 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
7094 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
7095 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
7096 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
7097 FUNCALL on the result.
7098 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
7099 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
7100 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
7101 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
7102 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
7103 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
7104 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
7105 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
7107 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
7108 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
7109 the old compiler produced.
7110 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
7111 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
7112 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
7113 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
7114 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
7115 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
7116 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
7117 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
7118 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
7119 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
7120 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
7121 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
7122 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
7123 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
7124 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
7125 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
7126 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
7127 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
7128 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
7129 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
7130 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
7131 straightened out in some future version.)
7132 * minor incompatible changes:
7133 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
7134 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
7135 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
7136 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
7137 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
7138 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
7139 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
7140 implementation dependent:
7141 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
7142 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
7143 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
7144 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
7145 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
7146 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
7147 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
7148 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
7150 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
7152 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
7153 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
7154 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
7155 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
7156 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
7157 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
7158 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
7159 are no longer used for output.
7160 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
7161 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
7162 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
7163 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
7164 increasing it even more.)
7165 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
7166 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
7167 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
7169 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
7170 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
7171 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
7172 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
7173 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
7174 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
7175 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
7176 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
7177 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
7178 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
7179 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
7180 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
7181 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
7182 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
7183 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
7184 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
7185 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
7186 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
7187 compilation of code which calls such functions.
7188 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
7189 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
7190 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
7191 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
7192 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
7193 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
7194 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
7195 built into the system.
7196 * many other bug fixes
7197 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
7198 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
7199 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
7200 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
7201 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
7203 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
7204 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
7205 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
7206 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
7207 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
7208 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
7209 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
7210 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
7211 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
7212 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
7213 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
7215 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
7216 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
7217 and several other LOOP problems as well
7218 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
7219 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
7220 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
7221 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
7222 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
7223 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
7224 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
7225 *** a bug in APROPOS
7226 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
7227 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
7228 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
7229 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
7230 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
7231 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
7232 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
7233 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
7234 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
7235 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
7236 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
7237 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
7238 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
7239 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
7240 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
7242 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
7243 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
7244 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
7245 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
7246 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
7247 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
7248 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
7249 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
7250 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
7251 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
7252 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
7253 some of which are apparent above.
7255 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
7256 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
7257 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
7258 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
7259 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
7260 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
7261 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
7262 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
7263 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
7264 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
7265 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
7266 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
7267 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
7268 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
7269 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
7270 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
7271 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
7272 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
7273 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
7274 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
7275 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
7276 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
7277 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
7278 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
7279 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
7280 different return types.
7281 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
7282 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
7283 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
7284 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
7285 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
7286 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
7287 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
7288 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
7289 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
7290 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
7292 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
7293 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
7294 does the right thing.
7295 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
7296 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
7297 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
7298 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
7299 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
7300 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
7301 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
7302 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
7303 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
7304 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
7305 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
7306 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
7307 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
7308 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
7309 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
7310 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
7311 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
7312 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
7313 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
7314 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
7315 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
7316 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
7317 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
7318 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
7319 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
7320 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
7321 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
7322 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
7323 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
7324 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
7325 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
7326 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
7327 since historically most system changes which required version
7328 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
7329 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
7332 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
7333 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
7334 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
7335 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
7336 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
7337 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
7338 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
7339 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
7340 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
7341 half a dozen others elsewhere
7342 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
7343 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
7344 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
7345 as flaky as they were.
7346 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
7347 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
7348 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
7349 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
7350 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
7351 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
7352 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
7353 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
7355 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
7356 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
7357 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
7358 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
7359 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
7360 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
7361 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
7362 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
7363 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
7364 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
7365 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
7366 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
7367 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
7368 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
7369 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
7370 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
7371 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
7372 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
7373 more obscure bugs as well
7374 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
7375 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
7376 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
7377 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
7378 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
7379 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
7380 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
7381 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
7382 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
7383 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
7384 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
7386 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
7387 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
7389 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
7391 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
7392 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
7393 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
7394 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
7395 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
7396 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
7397 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
7398 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
7399 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
7400 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
7401 are local in this sense.)
7402 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
7403 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
7404 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
7405 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
7406 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
7407 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
7408 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
7409 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
7410 system's STREAM objects.
7411 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
7412 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
7413 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
7414 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
7415 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
7416 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
7417 environment from the original process instead of starting the
7418 new process in an empty environment.
7419 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
7420 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
7421 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
7422 for porting convenience.
7423 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
7424 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
7426 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
7428 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
7429 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
7430 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
7431 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
7432 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
7433 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
7434 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
7435 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
7436 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
7437 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
7438 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
7439 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
7440 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
7441 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
7442 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
7443 many fewer weird special cases.
7444 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
7445 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
7446 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
7447 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
7448 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
7449 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
7450 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
7451 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
7452 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
7453 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
7454 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
7457 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
7459 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
7460 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
7461 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
7463 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
7464 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
7465 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
7466 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
7467 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
7468 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
7469 should be constructed the same way as before.
7470 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
7471 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
7472 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
7473 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
7474 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
7475 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
7476 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
7477 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
7478 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
7479 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
7480 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
7481 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
7482 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
7483 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
7484 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
7485 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
7486 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
7487 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
7488 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
7489 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
7490 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
7491 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
7493 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
7494 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
7495 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
7496 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
7497 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
7498 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
7499 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
7500 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
7502 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
7504 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
7505 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
7506 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
7507 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
7508 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
7510 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
7511 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
7512 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
7513 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
7514 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
7515 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
7516 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
7517 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
7518 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
7519 and Douglas Crosher.
7520 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
7521 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
7522 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
7524 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
7525 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
7526 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
7527 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
7528 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
7529 undefined function error.
7530 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
7531 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
7532 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
7533 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
7534 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
7535 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
7536 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
7537 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
7538 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
7539 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
7540 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
7541 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
7542 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
7544 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
7546 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
7547 CVS repository on my home machine).
7548 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
7549 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
7550 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
7551 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
7552 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
7553 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
7554 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
7555 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
7556 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
7557 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
7558 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
7559 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
7560 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
7561 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
7562 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
7563 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
7564 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
7565 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
7566 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
7567 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
7568 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
7569 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
7571 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
7572 FreeBSD have been added.
7573 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
7574 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
7575 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
7576 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
7577 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
7578 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
7580 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
7581 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
7582 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
7583 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
7584 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
7585 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
7586 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
7587 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
7589 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
7590 away by constant folding
7591 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
7592 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
7593 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
7594 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
7595 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
7596 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
7597 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
7598 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
7599 diff-related operations.
7600 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
7601 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
7603 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
7605 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
7606 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
7607 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
7608 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
7609 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
7610 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
7611 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
7612 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
7613 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
7614 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
7615 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
7616 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
7617 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
7618 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
7619 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
7620 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
7621 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
7622 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
7623 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
7624 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
7625 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
7626 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
7627 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
7628 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
7629 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
7630 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
7631 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
7632 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
7633 instead of (VALUES T T).
7634 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
7635 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
7636 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
7637 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
7638 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
7639 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
7640 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
7641 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
7642 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
7643 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
7644 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
7645 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
7646 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
7647 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
7648 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
7649 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
7650 type will be interpreted at runtime.
7651 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
7652 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
7653 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
7654 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
7655 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
7656 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
7657 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
7658 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
7659 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
7660 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
7661 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
7662 fasl files for cold load.
7663 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
7664 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
7665 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
7666 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
7667 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
7668 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
7669 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
7670 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
7671 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
7672 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
7673 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
7675 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
7676 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
7677 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
7678 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
7679 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
7680 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
7681 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
7682 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
7683 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
7684 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
7685 renamed some files to increase consistency.
7686 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
7687 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
7688 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
7689 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
7690 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
7691 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
7693 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
7695 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
7696 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
7697 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
7698 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
7699 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
7700 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
7701 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
7702 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
7703 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
7704 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
7705 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
7706 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
7707 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
7708 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
7709 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
7710 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
7711 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
7712 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
7714 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
7715 as required by ANSI.
7716 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
7717 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
7718 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
7719 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
7721 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
7722 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
7723 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
7724 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
7725 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
7726 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
7727 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
7728 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
7730 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
7731 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
7732 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
7733 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
7735 is now basically equivalent to
7736 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
7737 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
7739 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
7740 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
7741 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
7742 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
7743 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
7744 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
7745 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
7746 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
7747 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
7748 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
7749 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
7750 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
7751 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
7752 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
7753 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
7754 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
7755 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
7756 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
7757 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
7758 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
7759 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
7760 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
7761 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
7763 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
7765 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
7766 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
7767 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
7768 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
7769 GNUMAKE environment variable.
7770 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
7771 can build without error under CMU CL.
7773 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
7775 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
7776 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
7777 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
7778 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
7779 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
7780 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
7781 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
7782 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
7783 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
7784 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
7785 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
7786 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
7787 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
7788 being initialized before the type system knew the final
7789 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
7790 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
7791 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
7792 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
7793 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
7794 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
7795 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
7796 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
7797 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
7798 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
7800 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
7801 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
7802 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
7803 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
7804 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
7805 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
7806 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
7807 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
7808 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
7809 it were currently supported.
7810 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
7811 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
7812 having to maintain patches.
7813 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
7814 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
7816 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
7818 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
7819 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
7820 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
7821 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
7822 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
7823 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
7824 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
7825 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
7826 * various new style warnings:
7827 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
7828 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
7829 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
7830 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
7831 as specified by ANSI.
7832 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
7833 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
7834 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
7835 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
7836 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
7837 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
7838 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
7839 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
7840 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
7841 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
7842 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
7843 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
7844 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
7845 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
7846 argument types can be determined at compile time.
7847 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
7848 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
7849 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
7850 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
7851 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
7852 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
7853 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
7856 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
7858 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
7859 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
7860 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
7861 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
7862 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
7863 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
7864 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
7865 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
7866 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
7868 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
7869 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
7870 the report form was printed.)
7871 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
7872 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
7873 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
7874 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
7875 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
7876 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
7877 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
7878 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
7879 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
7880 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
7881 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
7882 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
7883 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
7884 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
7885 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
7886 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
7887 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
7888 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
7889 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
7890 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
7891 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
7892 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
7893 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
7894 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
7895 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
7896 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
7897 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
7898 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
7899 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
7900 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
7901 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
7902 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
7903 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
7904 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
7905 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
7906 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
7907 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
7908 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
7909 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
7910 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
7911 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
7912 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
7913 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
7914 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
7915 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
7916 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
7917 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
7918 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
7919 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
7920 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
7921 know more about target types.
7922 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
7923 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
7924 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
7925 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
7926 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
7927 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
7929 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
7930 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
7931 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
7932 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
7933 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
7934 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
7935 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
7936 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
7937 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
7938 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
7939 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
7940 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
7941 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
7943 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
7946 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
7948 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
7949 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
7950 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
7951 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
7952 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
7953 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
7954 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
7955 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
7956 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
7957 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
7958 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
7959 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
7960 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
7961 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
7962 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
7963 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
7964 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
7965 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
7966 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
7967 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
7968 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
7969 invisible at the user level.)
7970 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
7971 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
7972 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
7974 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
7976 * tidied up "make.sh" script
7977 * tidied up system directory structure
7978 * better "clean.sh" behavior
7979 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
7980 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
7981 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
7982 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
7983 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
7984 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
7985 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
7986 * command line argument processing
7987 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
7988 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
7989 terminating SBCL on EOF
7990 * non-verbose GC by default
7991 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
7992 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
7993 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
7995 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
7996 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
7997 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
7998 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
7999 transformed along with everything else.
8000 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
8001 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
8002 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
8003 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
8004 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
8005 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
8006 debugging and testing purposes
8007 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
8008 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
8009 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
8010 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
8011 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
8012 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
8013 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
8015 * regularized formatting of source files
8016 * added an install.sh script
8017 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
8018 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
8019 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
8020 builds nicely on my old laptop.
8021 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
8022 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
8023 was not implemented)
8024 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
8025 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
8026 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
8027 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
8028 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
8030 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
8031 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
8032 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
8033 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
8034 COMPILE-FILE command)
8035 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
8036 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
8037 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
8038 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
8039 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
8040 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
8041 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
8042 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
8043 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
8044 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
8045 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
8046 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
8047 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
8048 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
8049 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
8051 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
8052 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
8053 known to be able to handle the current sources
8054 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
8055 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
8056 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
8057 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
8058 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
8059 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
8060 * removed host-oops.lisp
8061 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
8062 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
8063 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
8064 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
8065 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
8066 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by