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  • sbcl_0_9_11

    2e3a763d · 0.9.11: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
      * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
        MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
      * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
        (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
      * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
        exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
      * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
        SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
        this change is to make it easier to distribute
        location-independent binaries.
      * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
        slots named by external symbols of public packages.  (reported by
        Pascal Costanza)
      * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
        (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
        via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
      * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
        case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
        to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
        particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing.  (thanks to
        Alastair Bridgewater)
      * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
        values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
        (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
      * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
        more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
        functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
      * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
      * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
        calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
      * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
        SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
        (thanks to James Knight)
      * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
        by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
  • sbcl_0_9_10

    98329126 · 0.9.10: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
      * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
        be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
        executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
        platforms.  (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
      * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
        the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin).  The
        old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
        (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
      * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
        contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
        links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
        in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
      * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
        markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
      * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
        certain complicated string types.  (reported by Gary King)
      * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
        character codes.  (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
      * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
        error if no structure type of the right name exists.  (reported by
        Glenn Ehrlich)
      * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
        applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
        INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
        no longer cause unbound variable errors.  (reported by Kevin Reid)
      * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
        added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD.  (reported by Jean
        Bresson)
      * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
        sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
        15th bit of the address, fixed at link time).  This used to
        manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
        (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
        many others over the years)
      * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
        the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
        (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
  • sbcl_0_9_9

    8464b733 · 0.9.9: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
      * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
        system has been added.  (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
      * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
        callbacks).  (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
      * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
        Dietz)
      * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
        Kreuter)
      * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
      * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
        grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
      * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
        (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
      * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
        required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
        (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
      * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
      * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
      * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
        immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64.  (thanks to Lutz Euler)
      * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
      * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current.  (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
  • sbcl_0_9_8

    242bb933 · 0.9.8: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
      * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
        GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
        the change in the 0.9.7 release).  (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
        by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
        GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
      * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
        value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
      * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
        odd characters as --load arguments.  (reported by Adam Warner)
      * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
        expected.  (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
      * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
        definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
      * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
      * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
        returning the number of octets which would be written to the
        file-stream.  (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
      * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
        arguments to the internal stream functions.  (thanks to David
        Lichteblau)
      * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
        platform.  (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
      * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
      * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
        index variables in LOOP
      * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
           that don't have a docstring
    
  • sbcl_0_9_7

    433a2459 · 0.9.7: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
      * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
        GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
        therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
        least permitted and maybe required by AMOP).  As a consolation,
        however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
        REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
      * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
        7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
        COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
        argument, as do eslotd initialization methods.  (from Pascal
        Costanza's "Closer" project)
      * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
        COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
        specified by AMOP.
      * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
        STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
        (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
      * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
        functions.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
        and Pascal Costanza)
      * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
        DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly.  (reported by
        Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
      * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
        circumstances.  (thanks to Simon Alexander)
      * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
        merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
      * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
        (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
      * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
        disassembling SSE instructions.  (thanks to Lutz Euler)
      * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
        (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
      * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
        (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
      * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
        :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
      * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
      * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
        on gencgc
      * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
        (thanks to Lutz Euler)
      * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
        floating point index variable or a negative step.
  • sbcl_0_9_6

    811f9c60 · 0.9.6: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
      * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
        Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
        (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
      * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
        (thanks to David Lichteblau)
      * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
        macroexpansion.  (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
      * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
        (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
        on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
      * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
        on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
      * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
        a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
      * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
      * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
      * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
        (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
      * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
        like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
        (thanks to Kevin Reid)
      * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
        explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
      * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
        and dump core on SIGQUIT
      * threads
        ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
           from their parents (see manual)
        ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
           next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
        ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
        ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
        ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
        ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
           suspended for gc
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
           CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
           NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
      * GENCGC
        ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
           no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
        ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
  • sbcl_0_9_5

    15f1e03b · 0.9.5: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
      * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
      * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
        x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
        cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
        iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
        iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
        iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
        cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
      * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
        non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
      * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
        more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
      * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
        platforms
      * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
        Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
        workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
        mounted.
      * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
        PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL.  (reported by
        Faré Rideau)
      * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
        have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
      * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
        confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
        funcallable-instances.  (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
      * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
        consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
      * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
        environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
        by Vasile Rotaru)
      * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
        iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
      * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
        may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
      * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
        under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings.  (reported by David Wallin
        aka froog on #lisp)
      * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
        specified by AMOP:
        ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
        ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
           STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
        ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
           now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
           remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
           of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
           classes; see the manual for more details;
        ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
           FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
           requested slot ordering.
      * threads
        ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
           child thread
        ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
           the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
           Hannu Koivisto)
        ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
           Hannu Koivisto)
        ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
           and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
           interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
        ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
           the :method-class keyword argument.
  • sbcl_0_9_4

    8dd397eb · 0.9.4: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
      * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
        mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
        remain.  (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
      * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
        space for its heap.  (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
      * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
        closures.  (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
      * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
      * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
        *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
        is disabled.
      * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
        deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
      * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
        implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
        is switched on or off
      * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
        with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
        make invalid assumptions about method precedence order.  (reported
        by Bruno Haible)
      * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
        platforms.  (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
      * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
      * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
        (thanks to Kevin Reid)
      * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
        package locks.  (reported by Zach Beane)
      * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
        for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
        regular LAMBDA.
      * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
        characters in the current readtable.  (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
      * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
        accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
      * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
        lists in some cases.  This partially fixes bug 384.
      * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
        debugger.
      * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
        directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
        not prevent gc from running
      * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
        approximation for timezone and DST information between the
        universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
      * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
        year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
      * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
        the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
        an inline 32-bit rotation.
      * threads
        ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
           there is only one thread in the session
        ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
           written to in another
        ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
        ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
           inhibited
        ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
        ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
           queue is full
        ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
           has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
           the orignal arguments.
        ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
           cell.
        ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
           name a compiled function.
        ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
           a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
           derivation were fixed.
        ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
           list-form FUNCTION type.
        ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
           as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
        ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
  • sbcl_0_9_3

    94cb041d · 0.9.3: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
      * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
        opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
        (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
      * Support for the koi8-r external format.  (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
      * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
        to Zach Beane)
      * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
        readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
        of a select system call
      * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
        Muñoz)
      * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
        for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
        Oliveira)
      * various error reporting improvements.
      * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
        (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
      * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
      * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
        code and foreign data with the same name.
      * threads
        ** added x86-64 support
        ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
           objects instead of thread ids
        ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
           starting up or going down
        ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
        ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
        ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
        ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
        ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
           an inappropriate moment
        ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
        ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
      * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
           EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
        ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
           values form.
        ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
        ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
        ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
           range before calling Unix time functions
  • sbcl_0_9_2

    1aa73454 · 0.9.2: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
      * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
      * Support for EUC-JP external format.  (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
      * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
        initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
        as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
        INITFORM).  (reported by Bruno Haible)
      * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
        :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
        for more information.
      * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
        pathname is a directory pathname.
      * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
      * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
        Cyrus Harmon)
      * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
        :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name.  (reported by
        Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
      * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
        (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
      * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
        Sascha Wilde)
      * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
        x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
      * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
        COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
        objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
      * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
        generic sense) arithmetic routines.  (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
      * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
        the PowerPC platform.
      * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
        memory, and probably show better memory locality.  (thanks to
        David Lichteblau)
      * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
        are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
        Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
      * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
        the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
        (thanks to Tony Martinez)
      * threads
        ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
        ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
        ** errno is no longer shared by threads
        ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
        ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
           *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
        ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
           as the name of a type, or vice versa
        ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
           (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
        ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
        ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
        ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
           FLET or MACROLET forms
        ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
           DOLIST return-form
        ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
           and OUTPUT-FILE
        ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
           always evaluated
  • sbcl_0_9_1

    b2a106fc · 0.9.1: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
      * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
        target with a 64-bit host compiler.
      * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
        opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
      * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
        combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
      * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
        intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
      * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
        "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
        or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
      * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
      * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
      * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
        generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
      * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
        to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
      * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
        x86-64.  (Thanks to James Knight)
      * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
        64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
        are now supported.
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
        ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
           a file has the stream as its datum.
        ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
           :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
        ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
           a correct expected type
        ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
           for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
           typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
        ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
           broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
           on broadcast streams.
  • sbcl_0_9_0

    927785ab · 0.9.0: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
      * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
        version 0.7.5, has been removed.  Please use the equivalent
        --disable-debugger option instead.
      * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
        interrupts enabled.
      * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
        inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
      * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
        significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
      * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
        has been added to the manual.
      * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
        as other specialized array types, is much faster.  SUBSEQ and
        COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
      * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
        is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
      * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
        size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
        all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
      * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
      * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
        safe.
      * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
        *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
      * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
        (reported by Rajat Datta).
      * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
        keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
        unused variable.
      * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
        ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
      * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
        variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
      * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
      * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
        (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
      * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
        fixed.  (thanks to Bruno Haible)
      * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
        (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
      * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
        purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
      * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
        calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
        entry per call to EVAL.  (reported by Kevin Reid)
      * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
      * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
      * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
        on x86-64
      * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
        on Alpha-32.
      * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
        previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
        #380 for more problems in this area).  (thanks to Zach Beane)
      * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
        checking when given a single method group with pattern *.  (thanks
        to Wendall Marvel)
      * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
        calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
      * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
        ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
      * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
        ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
           errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
           handle.
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
           assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
           transformations.
        ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
        ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
           types for complex arguments better.
        ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
           complex types.
        ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
        ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
           of type BIT-VECTOR.
        ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
        ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
           resulting in GC crashes.
        ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
           optional.
        ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
           declarations.
  • sbcl_0_8_21

    394eabf2 · 0.8.21: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
      * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
        been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable.  A threaded
        SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
        new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
      * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
        restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
        TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
        returning to the top level.
      * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
        global optimization policy.
      * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
        no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
        global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
        can be set by them.
      * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
        various incompatible changes.
      * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
        in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
        SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
      * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
        level local call to FOO".
      * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
        now have more legible printed representation
      * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
        are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
      * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
        explicitly requested.
      * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
        write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
        SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
        the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
        to debugger confusion or wild instability.  (reported by Cheuksan
        Wang)
      * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
        notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
        (reported by Lutz Euler)
      * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
        compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
      * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
        specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
        the specializer is now possible.
      * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
        face of package deletion.
      * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
        pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
      * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
        STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
        STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
      * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
        than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
        (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
      * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
      * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
        on x86-64
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
        ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
           correctable errors to be signalled.
        ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
        ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
           operands.
  • sbcl_0_8_20

    862491df · 0.8.20: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
      * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
      * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86.  (thanks to David
        Lichteblau)
      * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
        (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
      * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
        output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
        (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
      * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
        more accurate.  This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
        related to the ~@F format directive.
      * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
        Hanche-Olsen)
      * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
        dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
      * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
        by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word.  (reported by Lutz
        Euler)
      * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
        by Svein Ove Aas)
      * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
        coerce function designators to functions.
      * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
        CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
      * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
        the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
      * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
        fixnums no longer create extra rationals
      * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
        ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
           character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
           start of the buffer at the next read.
        ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
           passing it through to OPEN.
        ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
           argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
        ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
           ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
           STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
           boundary.  (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
      * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
        ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
           correctly.
        ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
           the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
        ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
        ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
           for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
        ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
           operations.
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
           secondary constituent character trait.
        ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
           syntax.
        ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
           normal termination.
        ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
           works more reliably.
        ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
           with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
        ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
           RATIO imagpart.
        ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
           (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
  • sbcl_0_8_19

    617d3450 · 0.8.18.36: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
      * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
        platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
        and reloading shared object files.
      * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
        supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
        platforms.
      * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
        call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
        reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
        foreign functions.
      * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
        of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
        itself.
      * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
        to MAKE-INSTANCE.
      * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
        SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
      * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
        produces an error.  (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
      * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
        directories works correctly.  (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
      * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
        by Gabe Garza)
      * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
        "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
        Robert J. Macomber)
      * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
        vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
      * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
        *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
      * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
        closures.
      * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
        when compiled with SAFETY 0.
      * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
        ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
           handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
           input or output to the terminal.  (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
        ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
           OCTETS-TO-STRING.  (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
        ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
           interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
           lisp characters are not eight bits.
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
           the correct number of arguments.
        ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
           to displaced strings.
        ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
           constituent characters by the tokenizer.
  • sbcl_0_8_18

    4ae8367f · 0.8.18: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
      * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
        LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
      * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
        can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
        object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
        available at runtime.
      * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
        supported.  (thanks to Dan Debertin)
      * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
        just keywords.  (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
      * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
        DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
      * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
        on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
        (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
      * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
        of lambda-list keywords.
      * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
        class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
        by Bruno Haible)
      * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
        of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
        (reported by Paul Dietz)
      * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
        those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
        hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
      * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
        TRACE).
      * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
        argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
      * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
        (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
      * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
        to Gabor Melis)
      * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
        ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
           stream.  (reported by Stefan Scholl)
        ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
           locales.  (reported by Ken Causey)
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
           CLtS 5.1.3.
        ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
           parameters correctly.
        ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
           consequent uses no arguments correctly.
        ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
           type specifier.
        ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
           required.
  • sbcl_0_8_17

    2d3009d3 · 0.8.17: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
      * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
        keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
        support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
        Unicode consortium.
      * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
        support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
        characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
        print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
      * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
        however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
      * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
        are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
        has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
        SB-DEBUG).
      * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
        are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
        instead.
      * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
        LET and LET* forms.
      * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
        allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
        (reported by Bruno Haible)
      * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
        types.
      * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
        required.  (reported by Bruno Haible)
      * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
        removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
        (reported by David Morse)
      * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
        new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
      * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
        options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
      * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
        is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
      * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
        now exists, an signals an error.
      * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
        during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
        by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
      * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
        messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
      * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
        and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
        *READ-SUPPRESS* is true.  (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
      * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
        (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
      * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
        do not designate a condition.  (reported by Bruno Haible for
        CMUCL)
      * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
        SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
        name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
        permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
        (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
      * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
        strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
        specialized array element types.
      * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
        zero.  (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
      * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
        (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
      * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
        inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
        BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
        Wragg for the simple test case)
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
           names.
        ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
           more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
        ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
        ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
           remaining arguments to the continue format control without
           complaint.
        ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
           characters.
        ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
           point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
        ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
           references to global functions.
        ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
           parameter'.
        ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
  • sbcl_0_8_16

    9ef04b99 · 0.8.16: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
      * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
        supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
        supported platforms.
      * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
        copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
        any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
      * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
        no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
        original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
      * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
        (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
      * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
        generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
        bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
      * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
        associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
        Bruno Haible)
      * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
        (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32.  (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
      * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
        no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING.  In addition,
        redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
        incompatible lambda list now signals an error.  (thanks to Zach
        Beane)
      * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
        same name in an enclosing lexical environment.  (thanks to Zach
        Beane)
      * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
        IR1-optimization.  (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
      * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
           returns the right answer.
        ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
           creators.
        ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
           correct.
        ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
        ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
           correct amounts.
        ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
           non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
  • sbcl_0_8_15

    3c5609fe · 0.8.15: ·
    changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
      * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
        SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
        SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
        the supported interface.
      * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
        higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
      * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
        supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
        Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
      * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
        parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
        (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
      * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
        correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
        despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
        compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
        same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
      * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
        (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
      * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
        case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
        Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
      * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
        warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
      * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
        for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
        SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS.  (reported by Ralf Mattes)
      * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
        LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
        CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
      * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
        ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
           directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.