changes in sbcl-1.5.5 relative to sbcl-1.5.4:
* platform support:
- SunOS: bug reports and patches from Richard Lowe in sb-posix tests
(lp#1837495), sb-concurrency tests (lp#1837817), unencapsulated tracing
(lp#1837307), float registers in interrupt contexts (lp#1837168)
* bug fix: do not generate version.lisp-expr from git describe if the git
repository is not sbcl's own. (lp#1836663, thanks to Richard Lowe)
* bug fix: compiler crash related to VALUES-LIST on a &REST argument in some
contexts. (lp#1836096, reported by Samuel Jimenez)
* bug fix: compiler hang related to constraint propagation. (lp#1835599,
reported by Mark Cox)
* bug fix: the inspector showed the wrong array element type. (lp#1835934,
reported by Richard M Kreuter)
* optimization: numerous improvements to hash table access and rehashing
* optimization: ASSERT compiles into substantially more compact code.
(lp#1835221)