1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
3 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
4 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
6 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
7 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
8 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
9 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
11 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
12 in multithreaded application code.
13 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
14 line in a file is unlimited.
15 * bug fix: GC deadlocks from asynchronous interrupts has been fixed
16 by disabling interrupts for the duration of any
17 SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING section.
19 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
20 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
21 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
22 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
23 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
24 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
26 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
27 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
28 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
29 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
30 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
31 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
32 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
33 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
34 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
36 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
37 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
38 (reported by Andras Simon)
39 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
40 bugs remain on x86-64.)
41 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
42 funcallable instances.
43 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
44 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
46 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
47 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
48 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
49 non-base strings as arguments
50 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
52 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
53 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
55 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
56 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
57 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
58 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
59 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
60 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
61 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
62 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
63 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
65 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
66 (thanks to Jon Buller)
67 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
68 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
71 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
72 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
73 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
75 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
76 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
77 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
78 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
79 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
81 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
82 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
83 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
84 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
85 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
86 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
87 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
88 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
89 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
90 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
91 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
92 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
93 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
94 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
95 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
96 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
97 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
98 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
99 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
100 stack frames from alien callbacks.
101 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
102 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
103 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
104 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
106 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
107 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
108 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
109 abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
110 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
111 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
112 sb-introspect contrib.
113 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
114 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
115 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
116 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
117 users and the general community)
118 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
119 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
120 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
121 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
122 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
123 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
124 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
125 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
126 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
127 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
128 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
129 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
130 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
131 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
132 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
133 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
135 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
136 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
137 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
138 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
139 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
140 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
141 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
143 * improvements to the Windows port:
144 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
145 to Alastair Bridgewater)
146 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
148 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
149 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
151 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
152 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
153 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
154 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
155 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
156 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
157 core, and restored on startup.
158 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
159 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
160 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
161 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
162 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
163 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
164 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
166 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
167 (thanks to Zach Beane)
168 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
170 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
171 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
172 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
174 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
175 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
176 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
177 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
178 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
179 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
181 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
182 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
183 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
184 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
185 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
186 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
187 (reported by Josip Gracin)
188 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
189 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
190 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
191 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
192 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
193 and don't cause extra consing
194 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
195 whose elements types have been declared.
196 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
197 ** Support for allocation profiling
198 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
199 * Improvements to the Windows port:
200 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
201 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
202 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
203 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
205 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
206 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
207 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
208 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
209 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
211 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
212 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
213 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
215 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
216 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
217 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
218 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
219 with non-variable places
220 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
221 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
222 code more stable against memory faults.
223 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
224 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
225 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
226 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
229 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
230 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
231 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
232 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
233 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
234 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
235 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
236 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
237 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
238 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
239 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
240 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
241 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
243 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
244 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
245 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
246 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
247 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
248 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
249 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
251 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
252 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
254 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
255 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
256 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
257 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
258 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
259 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
260 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
261 to the single-stepper REPL.
262 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
263 for a type now works.
264 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
266 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
267 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
268 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
269 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
270 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
271 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
272 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
273 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
275 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
276 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
277 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
278 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
279 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
280 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
281 whose bindings are modified
282 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
283 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
284 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
285 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
287 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
288 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
289 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
290 as specified by AMOP.
291 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
293 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
294 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
295 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
296 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
297 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
298 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
299 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
300 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
301 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
302 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
303 better type inference.
304 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
305 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
306 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
307 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
308 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
309 (reported by Bruno Haible)
310 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
311 initialization of methods can now be used to override
312 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
314 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
315 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
316 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
317 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
318 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
320 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
321 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
322 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
323 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
324 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
325 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
326 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
327 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
328 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
329 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
330 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
331 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
332 (reported by James Y Knight).
333 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
334 argument for shadowing by local functions.
335 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
337 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
338 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
340 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
342 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
343 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
344 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
346 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
347 * thread-safety improvements:
348 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
349 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
350 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
352 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
353 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
355 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
356 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
357 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
359 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
360 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
361 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
362 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
363 class became finalizeable.
364 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
365 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
366 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
367 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
369 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
370 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
371 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
372 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
373 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
374 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
375 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
376 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
377 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
378 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
379 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
380 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
381 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
382 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
383 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
384 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
385 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
386 * minor code generation optimizations:
387 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
388 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
389 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
390 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
391 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
392 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
393 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
396 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
397 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
399 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
401 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
402 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
403 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
404 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
405 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
406 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
407 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
408 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
409 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
410 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
411 the low-level debugger.
412 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
413 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
414 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
415 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
417 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
418 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
419 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
421 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
422 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
423 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
424 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
425 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
426 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
427 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
428 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
429 (reported by James Y Knight)
430 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
431 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
432 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
433 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
434 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
435 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
436 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
437 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
438 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
439 workaround for bug 403.)
440 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
441 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
442 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
443 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
445 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
446 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
447 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
449 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
450 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
451 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
452 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
453 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
455 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
457 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
458 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
459 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
462 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
463 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
464 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
465 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
466 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
467 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
468 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
469 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
470 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
471 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
472 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
473 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
474 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
475 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
476 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
477 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
478 documentation on package locks for details.
479 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
481 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
482 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
483 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
484 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
485 immediately available from the stream
486 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
487 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
488 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
489 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
491 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
492 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
493 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
495 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
496 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
497 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
499 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
500 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
501 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
502 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
504 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
505 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
506 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
507 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
508 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
509 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
510 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
511 ** sb-grovel supported
512 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
513 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
514 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
515 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
516 ** floating-point exception handling support
517 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
518 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
519 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
520 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
521 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
523 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
525 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
526 defaults for optional parameters.
527 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
528 function, which is already optimized.
530 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
531 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
532 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
533 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
534 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
535 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
536 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
537 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
538 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
539 this change is to make it easier to distribute
540 location-independent binaries.
541 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
542 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
544 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
545 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
546 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
547 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
548 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
549 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
550 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
551 Alastair Bridgewater)
552 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
553 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
554 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
555 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
556 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
557 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
558 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
559 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
560 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
561 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
562 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
563 (thanks to James Knight)
564 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
565 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
567 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
568 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
569 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
570 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
571 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
572 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
573 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
574 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
575 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
576 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
577 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
578 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
579 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
580 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
581 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
582 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
583 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
584 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
585 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
586 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
587 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
589 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
590 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
591 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
592 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
593 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
594 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
596 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
597 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
598 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
599 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
600 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
601 many others over the years)
602 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
603 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
604 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
606 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
607 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
608 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
609 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
610 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
611 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
613 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
615 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
616 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
617 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
618 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
619 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
620 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
621 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
622 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
623 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
624 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
625 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
626 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
627 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
628 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
630 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
631 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
632 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
633 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
634 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
635 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
636 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
637 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
638 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
639 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
640 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
641 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
642 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
643 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
644 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
645 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
646 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
647 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
648 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
649 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
651 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
652 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
653 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
654 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
655 index variables in LOOP
656 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
657 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
658 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
659 that don't have a docstring
661 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
662 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
663 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
664 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
665 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
666 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
667 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
668 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
669 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
670 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
671 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
672 Costanza's "Closer" project)
673 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
674 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
676 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
677 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
678 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
679 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
680 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
682 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
683 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
684 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
685 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
686 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
687 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
688 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
689 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
690 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
691 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
692 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
693 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
694 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
695 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
696 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
697 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
698 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
699 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
700 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
702 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
703 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
704 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
705 floating point index variable or a negative step.
707 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
708 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
709 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
710 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
711 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
712 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
713 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
714 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
715 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
716 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
717 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
718 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
719 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
720 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
721 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
722 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
723 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
724 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
725 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
726 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
727 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
728 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
729 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
730 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
731 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
732 and dump core on SIGQUIT
734 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
735 from their parents (see manual)
736 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
737 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
738 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
739 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
740 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
741 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
743 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
744 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
745 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
746 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
748 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
749 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
750 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
752 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
753 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
754 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
755 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
756 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
757 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
758 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
759 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
760 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
761 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
762 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
763 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
764 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
765 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
767 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
768 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
769 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
771 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
772 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
774 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
775 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
776 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
777 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
778 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
779 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
780 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
781 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
782 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
784 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
785 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
786 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
787 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
788 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
789 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
791 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
793 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
794 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
795 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
796 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
797 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
798 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
799 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
800 classes; see the manual for more details;
801 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
802 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
803 requested slot ordering.
805 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
807 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
808 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
810 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
812 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
813 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
814 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
815 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
816 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
817 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
818 the :method-class keyword argument.
820 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
821 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
822 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
823 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
824 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
825 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
826 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
827 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
828 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
829 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
830 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
832 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
833 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
834 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
835 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
836 is switched on or off
837 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
838 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
839 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
841 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
842 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
843 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
844 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
845 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
846 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
847 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
848 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
849 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
851 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
852 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
853 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
854 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
855 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
856 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
857 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
859 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
860 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
861 not prevent gc from running
862 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
863 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
864 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
865 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
866 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
867 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
868 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
869 an inline 32-bit rotation.
871 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
872 there is only one thread in the session
873 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
874 written to in another
875 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
876 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
878 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
879 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
881 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
882 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
883 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
884 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
885 the orignal arguments.
886 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
888 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
889 name a compiled function.
890 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
891 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
892 derivation were fixed.
893 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
894 list-form FUNCTION type.
895 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
896 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
897 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
899 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
900 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
901 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
902 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
903 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
904 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
906 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
907 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
908 of a select system call
909 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
911 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
912 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
914 * various error reporting improvements.
915 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
916 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
917 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
918 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
919 code and foreign data with the same name.
921 ** added x86-64 support
922 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
923 objects instead of thread ids
924 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
925 starting up or going down
926 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
927 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
928 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
929 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
930 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
931 an inappropriate moment
932 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
933 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
934 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
935 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
936 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
937 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
938 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
940 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
941 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
942 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
943 range before calling Unix time functions
945 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
946 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
947 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
948 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
949 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
950 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
951 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
952 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
953 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
954 for more information.
955 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
956 pathname is a directory pathname.
957 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
958 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
960 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
961 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
962 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
963 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
964 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
965 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
967 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
968 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
969 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
970 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
971 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
972 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
973 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
974 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
975 the PowerPC platform.
976 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
977 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
979 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
980 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
981 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
982 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
983 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
984 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
986 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
987 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
988 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
989 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
990 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
991 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
992 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
994 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
995 as the name of a type, or vice versa
996 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
997 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
998 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
999 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1000 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1001 FLET or MACROLET forms
1002 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1004 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1006 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1009 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1010 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1011 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1012 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1013 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1014 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1015 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1016 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1017 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1018 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1019 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1020 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1021 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1022 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1023 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1024 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1025 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1026 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1027 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1028 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1029 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1030 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1032 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1033 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1034 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1035 a file has the stream as its datum.
1036 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1037 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1038 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1039 a correct expected type
1040 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1041 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1042 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1043 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1044 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1045 on broadcast streams.
1047 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1048 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1049 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1050 --disable-debugger option instead.
1051 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1053 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1054 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1055 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1056 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1057 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1058 has been added to the manual.
1059 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1060 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1061 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1062 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1063 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1064 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1065 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1066 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1067 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1068 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1070 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1071 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1072 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1073 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1074 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1075 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1077 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1078 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1079 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1080 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1081 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1082 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1083 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1084 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1085 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1086 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1087 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1088 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1089 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1090 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1091 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1092 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1093 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1094 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1095 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1097 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1099 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1100 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1101 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1102 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1103 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1105 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1106 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1107 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1108 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1109 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1110 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1111 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1113 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1114 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1115 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1117 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1118 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1119 types for complex arguments better.
1120 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1122 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1123 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1125 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1126 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1127 resulting in GC crashes.
1128 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1130 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1133 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1134 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1135 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1136 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1137 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1138 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1139 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1140 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1141 returning to the top level.
1142 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1143 global optimization policy.
1144 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1145 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1146 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1148 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1149 various incompatible changes.
1150 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1151 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1152 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1153 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1154 level local call to FOO".
1155 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1156 now have more legible printed representation
1157 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1158 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1159 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1160 explicitly requested.
1161 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1162 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1163 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1164 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1165 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1167 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1168 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1169 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1170 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1171 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1172 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1173 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1174 the specializer is now possible.
1175 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1176 face of package deletion.
1177 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1178 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1179 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1180 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1181 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1182 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1183 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1184 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1185 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1186 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1188 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1189 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1190 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1191 correctable errors to be signalled.
1192 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1193 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1196 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1197 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1198 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1200 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1201 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1202 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1203 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1204 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1205 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1206 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1207 related to the ~@F format directive.
1208 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1210 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1211 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1212 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1213 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1215 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1217 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1218 coerce function designators to functions.
1219 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1220 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1221 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1222 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1223 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1224 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1225 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1226 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1227 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1228 start of the buffer at the next read.
1229 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1230 passing it through to OPEN.
1231 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1232 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1233 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1234 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1235 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1236 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1237 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1238 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1240 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1241 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1242 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1243 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1244 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1245 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1247 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1248 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1249 secondary constituent character trait.
1250 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1252 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1254 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1255 works more reliably.
1256 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1257 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1258 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1260 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1261 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1263 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1264 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1265 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1266 and reloading shared object files.
1267 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1268 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1270 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1271 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1272 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1274 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1275 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1277 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1279 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1280 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1281 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1282 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1283 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1284 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1285 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1287 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1288 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1290 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1291 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1292 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1293 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1294 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1296 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1297 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1298 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1299 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1300 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1301 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1302 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1303 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1304 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1305 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1306 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1307 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1308 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1309 the correct number of arguments.
1310 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1311 to displaced strings.
1312 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1313 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1315 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1316 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1317 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1318 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1319 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1320 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1321 available at runtime.
1322 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1323 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1324 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1325 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1326 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1327 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1328 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1329 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1330 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1331 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1332 of lambda-list keywords.
1333 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1334 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1336 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1337 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1338 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1339 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1340 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1341 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1342 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1344 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1345 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1346 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1347 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1348 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1350 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1351 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1352 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1353 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1354 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1355 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1356 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1358 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1359 parameters correctly.
1360 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1361 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1362 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1364 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1367 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1368 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1369 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1370 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1372 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1373 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1374 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1375 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1376 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1377 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1378 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1379 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1380 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1382 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1383 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1385 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1387 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1388 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1389 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1390 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1392 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1393 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1394 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1395 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1396 (reported by David Morse)
1397 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1398 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1399 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1400 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1401 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1402 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1403 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1404 now exists, an signals an error.
1405 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1406 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1407 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1408 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1409 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1410 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1411 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1412 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1413 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1414 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1415 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1416 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1418 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1419 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1420 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1421 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1422 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1423 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1424 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1425 specialized array element types.
1426 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1427 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1428 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1429 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1430 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1431 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1432 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1433 Wragg for the simple test case)
1434 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1435 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1437 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1438 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1439 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1440 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1441 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1443 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1445 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1446 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1447 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1448 references to global functions.
1449 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1451 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1453 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1454 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1455 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1456 supported platforms.
1457 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1458 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1459 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1460 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1461 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1462 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1463 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1464 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1465 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1466 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1467 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1468 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1469 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1471 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1472 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1473 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1474 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1475 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1476 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1478 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1479 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1481 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1482 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1483 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1484 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1485 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1486 returns the right answer.
1487 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1489 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
1491 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
1492 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
1494 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
1495 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
1497 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
1498 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
1499 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
1500 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
1501 the supported interface.
1502 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
1503 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
1504 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1505 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
1506 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
1507 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
1508 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
1509 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1510 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
1511 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
1512 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
1513 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
1514 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1515 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
1516 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
1517 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
1518 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
1519 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
1520 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
1521 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
1522 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
1523 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
1524 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
1525 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
1526 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
1527 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
1528 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1529 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
1530 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
1532 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
1533 * incompatible change: the internal functions
1534 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
1535 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
1536 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
1537 instead of the old functions.
1538 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
1539 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
1541 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
1542 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
1544 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
1545 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
1546 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
1547 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
1549 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
1550 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1551 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
1552 (reported by Rick Taube)
1553 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
1554 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
1555 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
1556 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
1558 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
1559 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
1560 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
1561 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
1562 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1563 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
1564 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
1565 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
1566 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
1567 represented relative to default pathnames.
1568 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
1569 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
1570 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
1572 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
1573 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
1574 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
1576 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1577 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
1578 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
1579 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
1581 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
1583 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
1584 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
1585 conditional newlines.
1586 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
1587 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
1588 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
1590 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
1591 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
1593 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
1594 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
1595 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
1596 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
1597 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
1598 compiled in unconditionally.
1599 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
1600 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
1601 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
1602 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
1603 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
1605 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
1606 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
1607 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
1608 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
1609 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
1610 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
1611 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
1612 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
1613 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
1614 an implementation-internal package.
1615 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
1617 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
1618 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
1619 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
1620 bodies are now more legible.
1621 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
1622 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
1623 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
1624 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
1625 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1626 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
1627 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
1629 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
1630 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
1631 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
1632 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
1633 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
1634 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
1635 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
1636 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
1637 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
1638 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
1640 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
1641 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
1642 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
1643 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
1644 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
1645 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
1646 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
1647 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
1648 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
1649 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
1650 system even when most of them are idle
1651 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
1652 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1653 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
1655 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
1656 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
1657 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
1658 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
1659 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
1661 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
1662 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
1663 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
1664 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
1665 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
1666 string for information on the protocol.
1667 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
1668 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
1670 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
1671 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
1673 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
1674 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
1675 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
1676 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
1677 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
1678 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
1680 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
1681 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
1683 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
1684 move between its address being taken and the call to
1685 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
1686 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
1687 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
1688 instances corresponding to C structs.
1690 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
1691 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
1692 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
1693 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
1694 has implications for memory management of client code
1695 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
1696 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
1697 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
1698 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
1699 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
1700 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
1701 quality should be considered deprecated.
1702 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
1703 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
1704 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
1705 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
1706 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
1708 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
1709 designator as the defaults argument.
1710 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
1711 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
1712 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1713 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
1714 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
1716 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
1718 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
1719 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1720 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
1721 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
1722 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1723 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
1725 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
1726 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1727 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
1728 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
1729 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
1730 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
1731 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1732 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
1733 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
1734 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
1735 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
1736 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1737 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
1738 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
1739 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
1740 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
1741 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
1743 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
1744 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
1745 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
1747 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
1748 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1749 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
1750 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
1751 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
1752 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
1753 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1754 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
1755 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
1757 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
1758 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
1760 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
1761 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
1763 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
1764 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1765 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
1766 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
1768 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
1769 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
1770 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1771 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
1772 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
1773 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
1774 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
1775 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
1777 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
1778 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
1779 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
1781 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
1782 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
1784 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1785 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
1787 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
1788 from local to shared slots.
1789 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
1790 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
1791 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
1792 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
1794 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
1795 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
1796 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
1797 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
1798 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
1799 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
1800 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
1801 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
1802 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
1804 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
1806 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
1808 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
1809 print using #P"..." syntax.
1811 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
1812 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
1813 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
1814 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
1815 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
1816 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
1817 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
1818 * [placeholder for DX summary]
1819 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
1820 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
1821 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
1822 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
1823 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
1824 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
1825 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
1826 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
1827 the test case to Dave Roberts)
1828 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
1829 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
1830 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
1831 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1832 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
1833 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
1834 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
1835 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1836 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
1837 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
1838 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
1839 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
1840 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1841 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
1842 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
1845 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
1846 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
1847 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
1848 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
1849 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
1850 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
1851 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
1852 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
1853 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
1854 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1855 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
1856 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
1857 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
1859 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
1860 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
1862 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
1863 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
1864 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1865 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
1866 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1867 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
1869 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
1870 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
1871 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
1873 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
1875 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
1877 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
1878 their output stream on EOF from read.
1879 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
1880 have been read to end-of-file.
1881 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
1883 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
1884 description of determination of which consecutive characters
1886 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
1887 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
1888 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1889 less than 10 works correctly.
1890 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1891 more than 10 works correctly.
1892 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
1893 the readtable currently in effect.
1895 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
1896 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
1897 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
1898 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
1899 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
1900 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
1901 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
1902 should usually be replaced by
1903 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
1904 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
1905 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
1906 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
1907 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
1908 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
1909 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
1910 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
1912 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
1913 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
1914 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1915 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
1916 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
1917 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1918 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
1919 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
1920 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
1921 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
1922 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
1923 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
1924 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
1926 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
1927 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
1928 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
1929 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1930 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
1931 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
1932 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
1933 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1934 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
1935 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
1936 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
1937 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
1938 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
1939 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
1940 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1941 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
1942 non-local entry points.
1943 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
1945 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1946 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
1948 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
1949 host is already defined.
1950 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
1952 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
1953 or not a character is whitespace.
1954 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
1955 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
1956 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
1958 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
1959 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
1961 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
1963 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
1964 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
1965 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
1966 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
1967 designator argument does not designate a stream.
1968 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
1969 examining the synonym.
1970 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
1972 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
1973 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
1975 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
1976 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
1977 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
1978 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
1979 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
1980 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
1981 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
1982 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
1983 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
1984 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1985 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
1986 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
1988 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
1989 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
1990 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1991 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
1992 stream position information.
1993 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
1994 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
1995 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
1996 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
1997 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1998 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2000 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2001 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2003 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2004 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2005 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2006 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2007 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2008 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2009 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2011 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2013 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2014 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2015 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2016 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2017 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2018 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2019 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2020 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2021 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2022 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2023 the "SYS" logical host.
2024 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2025 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2026 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2027 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2028 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2029 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2030 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2031 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2032 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2034 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2035 shift greater than 32.
2036 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2037 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2038 in some circumstances.
2040 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2041 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2042 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2043 environments like SLIME.
2044 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2045 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2046 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2047 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2048 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2049 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2050 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2051 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2052 argument types for all arguments.
2053 * various threading fixes
2054 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2055 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2056 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2057 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2059 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2060 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2061 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2062 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2063 arguments to a full call.
2064 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2065 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2066 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2067 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2069 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2070 inserts a space where necessary.
2071 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2072 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2073 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2074 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2075 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2076 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2077 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2078 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2079 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2080 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2081 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2082 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2084 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2085 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2086 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2088 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2090 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2091 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2092 argument and negative second.
2093 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2094 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2095 interval, containing 0.
2096 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2098 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2099 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2101 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2102 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2103 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2104 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2105 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2106 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2107 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2108 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2109 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2110 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2111 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2112 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2113 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2114 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2115 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2116 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2117 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2118 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2119 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2120 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2121 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2122 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2123 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2124 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2125 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2126 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2127 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2128 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2129 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2131 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2132 platform now returns the right answer.
2133 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2134 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2135 precomputation is now tunable.
2136 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2137 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2138 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2139 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2140 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2141 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2142 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2143 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2144 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2145 has been added for the alpha.
2146 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2147 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2148 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2149 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2150 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2151 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2152 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2154 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2155 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2156 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2158 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2159 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2160 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2161 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2162 might be pseudo-atomic.
2163 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2164 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2166 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2168 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2170 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2171 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2172 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2173 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2174 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2175 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2177 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2178 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2179 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2180 small float arguments.
2181 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2183 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2184 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2185 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2186 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2187 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2188 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2190 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2192 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2193 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2194 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2195 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2196 with negative last argument.
2197 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2198 an error during type derivation.
2199 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2201 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2202 generates a 32-bit binary.
2203 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2204 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2205 data structures referred to above).
2207 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2208 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2209 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2210 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2211 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2212 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2213 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2214 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2215 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2216 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2217 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2218 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2220 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2221 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2223 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2224 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2225 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2226 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2227 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2228 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2229 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2230 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2231 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2232 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2233 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2234 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2235 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2236 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2237 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2238 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2239 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2240 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2241 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2242 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2243 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2244 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2245 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2246 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2247 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2248 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2249 optimization quality.
2250 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2251 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2252 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2253 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2254 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2255 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2256 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2257 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2258 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2259 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2260 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2261 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2262 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2263 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2264 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2265 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2266 calling the generic function.
2267 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2268 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2269 obscure ANSI requirements
2271 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2272 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2273 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2274 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2275 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2276 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2277 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2278 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2279 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2280 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2282 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2283 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2284 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2285 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2286 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2287 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2288 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2289 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2290 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2291 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2292 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2293 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2294 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2295 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2296 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2297 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2298 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2299 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2300 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2301 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2303 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2304 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2305 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2306 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2308 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2309 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2310 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2311 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2312 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2313 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2314 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2315 the class in more cases than previously.
2316 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2317 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2318 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2319 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2320 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2321 without lambda list.
2322 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2323 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2324 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2325 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2326 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2327 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2329 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2330 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2331 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2333 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2334 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2335 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2336 were silently accepted).
2337 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2338 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2339 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2340 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2341 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2342 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2343 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2344 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2345 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2346 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2347 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2348 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2349 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2350 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2352 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2353 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2354 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2355 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2356 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2357 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2359 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2360 keywords or constants is permissible.
2361 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2362 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2363 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2364 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2365 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2366 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2367 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2368 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2370 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2371 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2372 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2373 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2374 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2375 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2376 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2378 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2380 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2381 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2382 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2383 respectively change and preserve the value.
2384 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2385 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2386 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2387 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2388 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2389 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2390 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2391 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2392 their use properly signals an error now.
2393 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2394 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2395 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2396 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2397 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2398 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2399 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2400 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2401 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2402 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2403 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2404 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2405 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2406 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2407 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2408 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2409 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2410 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2411 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2412 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2413 causes a type error.
2414 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2415 association between the name and a class.
2416 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2417 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2418 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2419 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2420 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2421 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2423 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2424 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2425 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2426 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2428 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2429 which its argument is a member.
2430 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2431 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2432 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2433 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2434 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2435 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2436 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2437 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2438 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2440 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2441 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2442 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2443 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2444 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2445 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2446 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2448 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2449 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2450 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2451 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2452 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2453 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2454 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2455 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2456 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2457 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2458 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2459 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2460 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2461 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2463 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2464 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2465 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2466 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2467 superclasses are applied.
2468 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2469 no method was removed.
2470 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2471 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2472 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2473 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2475 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2477 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2478 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2479 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2480 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2481 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2482 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2483 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2484 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2485 function lambda list.
2486 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2488 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2489 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2490 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
2491 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
2493 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
2494 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
2495 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
2496 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
2497 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
2498 they look for GNU "make".
2500 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
2501 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
2502 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
2503 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
2505 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
2506 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
2507 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
2508 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
2509 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
2510 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
2511 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
2512 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
2513 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
2514 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
2516 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
2517 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
2518 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
2519 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
2520 libraries, and will know who they are.
2521 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
2522 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
2523 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
2524 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
2525 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
2526 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
2527 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
2528 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
2530 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
2531 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
2532 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2533 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
2534 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
2535 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
2536 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
2537 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
2538 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
2539 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
2540 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2541 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
2543 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
2544 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
2545 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
2546 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
2547 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2548 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
2549 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
2550 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
2551 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
2553 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
2554 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
2555 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
2556 this you were probably losing anyway.
2557 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
2558 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
2559 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
2560 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
2561 with names from the CL package.
2562 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
2563 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
2564 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
2565 documentation string.
2566 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2567 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
2569 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
2570 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
2571 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
2572 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
2574 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
2575 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
2577 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
2578 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2579 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
2581 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
2582 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
2583 arguments contain duplicated elements.
2584 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
2585 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
2586 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
2587 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
2588 in question is unbound.
2589 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
2590 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
2591 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
2592 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
2593 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
2595 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
2597 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
2598 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
2599 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
2600 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
2601 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
2602 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
2603 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
2604 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
2605 by Antonio Martinez)
2606 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
2607 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2608 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
2609 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
2610 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
2611 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
2612 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
2613 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2614 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
2615 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
2616 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
2617 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
2618 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
2619 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
2620 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
2621 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
2622 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
2623 on malformed property lists;
2625 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
2626 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
2627 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
2628 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
2629 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
2630 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
2631 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
2632 modules in this release include:
2633 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
2634 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
2635 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
2636 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2637 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
2639 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
2640 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
2641 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2642 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2643 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
2644 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
2645 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
2646 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
2648 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
2649 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
2650 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
2651 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
2652 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
2653 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
2654 the lexical environment.
2655 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
2656 unprintable packages can now be defined.
2657 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
2658 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2659 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
2660 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2661 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
2662 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
2663 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
2664 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
2665 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
2666 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
2667 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
2668 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
2669 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2670 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
2671 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2672 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
2673 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
2674 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
2675 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2676 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
2677 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
2678 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
2679 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
2681 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
2682 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
2683 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2684 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2685 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
2686 not just nonnegative fixnums;
2687 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
2688 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
2689 freshly-consed result bit-array);
2690 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
2692 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
2693 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
2695 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
2696 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
2697 cases are accurately computed;
2698 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
2699 if it is in the last clause;
2700 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
2702 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
2703 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
2704 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
2705 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
2707 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
2708 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
2709 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
2710 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
2711 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
2713 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
2714 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
2715 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
2716 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
2718 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2719 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
2720 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
2721 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
2722 not cause a type error;
2723 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
2725 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
2726 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
2727 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
2728 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
2729 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
2730 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
2731 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
2732 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
2734 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
2735 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
2736 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
2737 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
2738 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
2739 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
2741 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
2742 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
2744 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
2745 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
2746 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
2747 only for symbols in the CL package.
2748 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
2749 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2750 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
2751 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
2752 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
2754 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2755 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
2756 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
2757 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
2758 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
2759 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
2760 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
2761 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
2762 conditional loop clause;
2763 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
2764 signals a type error iff it should.
2765 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2766 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
2767 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
2768 argument) no longer signals an error;
2769 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
2770 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
2771 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
2773 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
2774 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
2775 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
2777 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
2778 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
2779 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
2780 functionality on said platforms verified.
2781 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
2782 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
2784 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
2785 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
2786 component indicating that directory.
2787 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
2788 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
2789 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
2790 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
2791 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2792 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
2794 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
2795 primary methods with no specializers;
2796 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
2798 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
2799 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
2800 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
2801 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
2803 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
2804 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
2805 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
2807 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
2808 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
2809 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
2810 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
2811 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
2812 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
2813 class STANDARD-CLASS;
2814 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
2815 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2816 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
2817 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
2819 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
2820 value producing form;
2821 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
2822 variables are bound and made to have no value;
2823 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
2825 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
2826 is not a valid sequence index;
2827 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
2828 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
2829 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2830 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
2832 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
2833 symbol-macro places;
2834 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
2835 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
2837 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
2839 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
2841 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
2842 invariant when deleting code.
2843 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
2844 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
2846 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
2847 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2848 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
2850 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
2851 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
2853 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
2854 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
2855 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2856 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
2858 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
2859 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2860 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
2861 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
2863 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
2864 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
2865 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
2866 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
2867 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2868 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
2869 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
2870 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
2871 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
2872 sbcl and .core files.)
2873 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
2874 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
2875 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
2876 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
2877 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
2878 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2879 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
2881 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
2882 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
2883 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
2884 argument precedence order.
2885 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
2886 derived types contradict their declared type.
2887 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
2888 so it can be non-toplevel.
2889 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
2890 implementation of DEFMACRO).
2891 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
2892 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
2893 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
2895 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
2896 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
2897 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
2898 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
2899 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
2900 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
2901 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
2902 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
2903 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
2904 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
2905 symbol macro only once
2906 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
2907 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
2908 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
2911 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
2912 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
2913 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
2914 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
2915 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
2916 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
2917 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
2918 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
2919 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
2920 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2921 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
2922 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
2924 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
2925 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
2926 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
2927 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
2928 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2929 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
2931 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
2933 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
2934 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
2935 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
2936 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
2937 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2938 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
2939 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
2940 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
2941 ways in different special cases
2942 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
2944 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
2945 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
2946 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
2947 are no longer optimized away.
2948 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
2949 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
2950 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
2951 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
2952 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
2953 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
2954 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
2955 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
2958 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
2959 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
2960 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
2961 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
2962 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
2963 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
2964 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
2966 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
2967 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
2968 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
2969 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
2970 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
2971 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
2972 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
2973 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
2974 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
2975 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
2976 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
2977 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
2978 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
2979 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
2980 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
2981 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
2982 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
2983 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2984 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
2985 that are names of constants or global variables.
2986 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
2987 alien routines with docstrings.
2988 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
2989 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
2991 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
2992 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2993 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
2994 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2995 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
2996 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2997 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
2998 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
2999 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3000 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3001 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3002 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3003 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3004 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3005 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3006 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3007 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3008 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3009 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3010 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3011 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3012 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3013 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3015 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3016 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3018 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3019 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3020 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3021 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3022 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3023 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3024 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3025 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3026 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3027 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3029 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3030 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3031 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3032 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3033 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3034 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3035 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3036 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3037 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3038 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3039 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3040 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3041 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3042 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3043 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3044 is no longer a static symbol.)
3046 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3047 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3048 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3049 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3050 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3052 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3053 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3055 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3056 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3057 to David Lichteblau)
3058 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3059 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3060 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3062 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3063 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3064 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3065 count as they should.
3066 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3067 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3068 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3069 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3070 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3071 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3072 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3073 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3074 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3075 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3076 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3077 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3078 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3079 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3080 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3082 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3083 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3084 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3086 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3088 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3089 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3090 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3091 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3092 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3093 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3094 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3096 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3097 to Christophe Rhodes)
3098 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3099 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3100 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3101 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3102 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3103 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\x7fB") returns
3104 |A
\x7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3106 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3107 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3108 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3109 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3110 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3111 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3112 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3113 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3114 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3115 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3116 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3117 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3118 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3120 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3121 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3122 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3123 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3124 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3125 (thanks to coreythomas)
3126 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3127 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3128 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3129 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3130 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3132 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3133 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3134 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3135 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3136 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3137 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3138 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3139 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3140 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3141 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3142 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3143 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3144 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3146 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3147 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3150 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3151 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3152 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3153 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3154 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3155 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3156 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3157 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3158 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3159 systems than the old 4M value was)
3160 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3161 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3162 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3163 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3164 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3165 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3166 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3168 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3169 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3170 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3171 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3172 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3174 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3175 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3176 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3177 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3178 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3179 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3180 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3181 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3183 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3184 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3185 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3186 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3187 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3188 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3189 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3190 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3192 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3193 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3194 * several changes related to debugging:
3195 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3196 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3197 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3198 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3199 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3200 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3201 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3204 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3206 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3207 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3208 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3209 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3210 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3211 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3212 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3213 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3215 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3216 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3217 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3218 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3219 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3220 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3221 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3222 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3223 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3224 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3225 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3226 file format number to change again.
3228 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3229 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3230 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3231 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3233 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3234 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3235 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3236 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3237 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3238 FUNCALL on the result.
3239 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3240 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3241 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3242 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3243 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3244 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3245 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3246 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3248 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3249 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3250 the old compiler produced.
3251 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3252 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3253 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3254 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3255 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3256 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3257 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3258 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3259 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3260 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3261 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3262 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3263 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3264 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3265 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3266 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3267 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3268 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3269 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3270 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3271 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3272 straightened out in some future version.)
3273 * minor incompatible changes:
3274 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3275 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3276 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3277 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3278 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3279 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3280 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3281 implementation dependent:
3282 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3283 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3284 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3285 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3286 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3287 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3288 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3289 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3291 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3293 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3294 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3295 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3296 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3297 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3298 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3299 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3300 are no longer used for output.
3301 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3302 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3303 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3304 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3305 increasing it even more.)
3306 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3307 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3308 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3310 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3311 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3312 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3313 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3314 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3315 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3316 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3317 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3318 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3319 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3320 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3321 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3322 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3323 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3324 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3325 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3326 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3327 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3328 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3329 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3330 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3331 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3332 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3333 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3334 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3335 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3336 built into the system.
3337 * many other bug fixes
3338 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3339 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3340 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3341 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3342 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3344 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3345 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3346 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3347 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3348 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3349 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3350 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3351 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3352 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3353 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3354 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3356 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3357 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3358 and several other LOOP problems as well
3359 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3360 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3361 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3362 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3363 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3364 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3365 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3366 *** a bug in APROPOS
3367 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3368 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3369 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3370 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3371 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3372 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3373 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3374 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3375 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3376 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3377 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3378 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3379 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3380 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3381 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3383 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3384 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3385 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3386 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3387 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3388 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3389 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3390 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3391 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3392 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3393 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3394 some of which are apparent above.
3396 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3397 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3398 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3399 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3400 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3401 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3402 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3403 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3404 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3405 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3406 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3407 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3408 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3409 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3410 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3411 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3412 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3413 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3414 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3415 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3416 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3417 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3418 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3419 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3420 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3421 different return types.
3422 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3423 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3424 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3425 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3426 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3427 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3428 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3429 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3430 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3431 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3433 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3434 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3435 does the right thing.
3436 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3437 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3438 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3439 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3440 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3441 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3442 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3443 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3444 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3445 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3446 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3447 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3448 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3449 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3450 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3451 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3452 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3453 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3454 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3455 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3456 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3457 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3458 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3459 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3460 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3461 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3462 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3463 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3464 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3465 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3466 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3467 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3468 since historically most system changes which required version
3469 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3470 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3473 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3474 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3475 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3476 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3477 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3478 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3479 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3480 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3481 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3482 half a dozen others elsewhere
3483 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3484 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3485 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3486 as flaky as they were.
3487 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3488 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3489 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3490 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
3491 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
3492 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
3493 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
3494 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
3496 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
3497 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
3498 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
3499 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3500 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
3501 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
3502 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
3503 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
3504 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
3505 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
3506 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
3507 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
3508 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
3509 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
3510 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
3511 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
3512 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
3513 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
3514 more obscure bugs as well
3515 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
3516 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
3517 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
3518 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
3519 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
3520 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
3521 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
3522 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
3523 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
3524 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
3525 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
3527 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
3528 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
3530 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
3532 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3533 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
3534 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
3535 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
3536 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
3537 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
3538 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
3539 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
3540 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
3541 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
3542 are local in this sense.)
3543 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
3544 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
3545 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
3546 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
3547 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
3548 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
3549 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3550 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
3551 system's STREAM objects.
3552 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
3553 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3554 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
3555 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3556 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
3557 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
3558 environment from the original process instead of starting the
3559 new process in an empty environment.
3560 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
3561 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
3562 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
3563 for porting convenience.
3564 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
3565 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
3567 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
3569 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
3570 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
3571 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
3572 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
3573 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
3574 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
3575 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
3576 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
3577 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
3578 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
3579 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
3580 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3581 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
3582 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
3583 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
3584 many fewer weird special cases.
3585 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
3586 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
3587 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3588 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
3589 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
3590 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
3591 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
3592 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
3593 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
3594 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3595 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
3598 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
3600 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
3601 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
3602 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
3604 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
3605 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
3606 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
3607 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
3608 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
3609 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
3610 should be constructed the same way as before.
3611 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
3612 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
3613 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
3614 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
3615 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
3616 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
3617 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
3618 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
3619 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
3620 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
3621 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
3622 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
3623 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
3624 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
3625 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
3626 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
3627 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
3628 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
3629 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
3630 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
3631 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
3632 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
3634 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
3635 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
3636 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
3637 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
3638 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
3639 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
3640 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
3641 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
3643 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
3645 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
3646 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
3647 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
3648 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
3649 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
3651 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
3652 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
3653 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
3654 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
3655 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
3656 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
3657 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
3658 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
3659 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
3660 and Douglas Crosher.
3661 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
3662 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
3663 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
3665 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
3666 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
3667 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
3668 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
3669 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
3670 undefined function error.
3671 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
3672 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
3673 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
3674 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
3675 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
3676 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
3677 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
3678 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
3679 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
3680 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
3681 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
3682 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
3683 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
3685 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
3687 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
3688 CVS repository on my home machine).
3689 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
3690 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
3691 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
3692 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
3693 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
3694 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
3695 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
3696 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
3697 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
3698 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
3699 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
3700 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
3701 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
3702 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
3703 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
3704 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
3705 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
3706 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
3707 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
3708 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
3709 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
3710 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
3712 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
3713 FreeBSD have been added.
3714 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
3715 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
3716 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
3717 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
3718 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
3719 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
3721 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
3722 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
3723 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
3724 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
3725 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
3726 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
3727 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
3728 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
3730 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
3731 away by constant folding
3732 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
3733 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
3734 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
3735 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
3736 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
3737 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
3738 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
3739 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
3740 diff-related operations.
3741 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
3742 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
3744 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
3746 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
3747 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
3748 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
3749 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
3750 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
3751 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
3752 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
3753 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
3754 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
3755 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
3756 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
3757 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
3758 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
3759 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
3760 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
3761 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
3762 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
3763 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
3764 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
3765 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
3766 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
3767 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
3768 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
3769 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
3770 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
3771 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
3772 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
3773 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
3774 instead of (VALUES T T).
3775 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
3776 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
3777 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
3778 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
3779 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
3780 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
3781 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
3782 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
3783 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
3784 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
3785 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
3786 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
3787 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
3788 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
3789 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
3790 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
3791 type will be interpreted at runtime.
3792 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
3793 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
3794 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
3795 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
3796 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
3797 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
3798 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
3799 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
3800 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
3801 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
3802 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
3803 fasl files for cold load.
3804 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
3805 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
3806 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
3807 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
3808 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
3809 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
3810 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
3811 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
3812 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
3813 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
3814 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
3816 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
3817 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
3818 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
3819 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
3820 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
3821 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
3822 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
3823 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
3824 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
3825 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
3826 renamed some files to increase consistency.
3827 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
3828 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
3829 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
3830 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
3831 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
3832 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
3834 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
3836 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
3837 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
3838 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
3839 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
3840 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
3841 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
3842 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
3843 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
3844 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
3845 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
3846 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
3847 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
3848 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
3849 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
3850 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
3851 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
3852 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
3853 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
3855 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
3856 as required by ANSI.
3857 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
3858 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
3859 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
3860 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
3862 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
3863 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
3864 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
3865 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
3866 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
3867 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
3868 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
3869 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
3871 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
3872 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
3873 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
3874 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3876 is now basically equivalent to
3877 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3878 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
3880 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
3881 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
3882 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
3883 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
3884 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
3885 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
3886 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
3887 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
3888 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
3889 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
3890 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
3891 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
3892 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
3893 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
3894 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
3895 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3896 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
3897 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
3898 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
3899 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
3900 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
3901 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
3902 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
3904 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
3906 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
3907 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
3908 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
3909 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
3910 GNUMAKE environment variable.
3911 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
3912 can build without error under CMU CL.
3914 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
3916 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
3917 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
3918 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
3919 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
3920 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
3921 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
3922 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
3923 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
3924 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
3925 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
3926 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
3927 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
3928 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
3929 being initialized before the type system knew the final
3930 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
3931 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
3932 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
3933 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
3934 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
3935 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
3936 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
3937 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
3938 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
3939 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
3941 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
3942 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
3943 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
3944 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
3945 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
3946 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
3947 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
3948 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
3949 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
3950 it were currently supported.
3951 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
3952 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
3953 having to maintain patches.
3954 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
3955 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
3957 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
3959 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
3960 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
3961 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
3962 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
3963 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
3964 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
3965 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
3966 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
3967 * various new style warnings:
3968 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
3969 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
3970 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
3971 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
3972 as specified by ANSI.
3973 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
3974 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
3975 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
3976 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
3977 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
3978 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
3979 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
3980 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
3981 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
3982 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
3983 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
3984 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
3985 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
3986 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
3987 argument types can be determined at compile time.
3988 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
3989 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
3990 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
3991 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
3992 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
3993 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
3994 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
3997 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
3999 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4000 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4001 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4002 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4003 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4004 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4005 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4006 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4007 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4009 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4010 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4011 the report form was printed.)
4012 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4013 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4014 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4015 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4016 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4017 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4018 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4019 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4020 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4021 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4022 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4023 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4024 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4025 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4026 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4027 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4028 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4029 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4030 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4031 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4032 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4033 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4034 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4035 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4036 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4037 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4038 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4039 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4040 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4041 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4042 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4043 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4044 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4045 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4046 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4047 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4048 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4049 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4050 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4051 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4052 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4053 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4054 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4055 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4056 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4057 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4058 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4059 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4060 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4061 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4062 know more about target types.
4063 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4064 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4065 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4066 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4067 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4068 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4070 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4071 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4072 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4073 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4074 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4075 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4076 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4077 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4078 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4079 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4080 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4081 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4082 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4084 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4087 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4089 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4090 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4091 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4092 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4093 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4094 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4095 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4096 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4097 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4098 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4099 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4100 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4101 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4102 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4103 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4104 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4105 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4106 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4107 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4108 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4109 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4110 invisible at the user level.)
4111 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4112 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4113 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4115 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4117 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4118 * tidied up system directory structure
4119 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4120 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4121 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4122 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4123 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4124 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4125 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4126 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4127 * command line argument processing
4128 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4129 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4130 terminating SBCL on EOF
4131 * non-verbose GC by default
4132 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4133 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4134 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4136 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4137 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4138 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4139 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4140 transformed along with everything else.
4141 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4142 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4143 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4144 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4145 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4146 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4147 debugging and testing purposes
4148 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4149 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4150 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4151 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4152 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4153 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4154 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4156 * regularized formatting of source files
4157 * added an install.sh script
4158 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4159 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4160 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4161 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4162 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4163 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4164 was not implemented)
4165 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4166 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4167 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4168 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4169 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4171 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4172 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4173 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4174 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4175 COMPILE-FILE command)
4176 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4177 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4178 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4179 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4180 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4181 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4182 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4183 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4184 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4185 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4186 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4187 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4188 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4189 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4190 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4192 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4193 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4194 known to be able to handle the current sources
4195 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4196 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4197 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4198 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4199 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4200 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4201 * removed host-oops.lisp
4202 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4203 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4204 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4205 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4206 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4207 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by