source: branches/0.17.x/abcl/CHANGES

Version 0.17.0
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svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.17.0/abcl
(07 Nov, 2009)


Features:

  * Google App Engine example project "Hello world"
  * Support for loading FASLs from JAR files
  * Checking of init-arguments for MAKE-INSTANCE (CLOS)
  * Support for *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* (to support SLIME)
  * Reduced abcl.jar size (bytes and number of objects)
  * Faster access to locally bound specials (compiler efficiency)
  * Java property to print autoloading information: abcl.autoload.verbose
  * Experimental: binary fasls
  * Default Ant build target now "abcl.clean abcl.wrapper" (from abcl.help)
  * ConditionThrowable class renamed to ControlTransfer,
      parent class changed to RuntimeException (to make it unchecked)
  * API no longer throws ConditionThrowable/ControlTransfer


Bugs fixed:

  * Better fix for #63: Prevent exceptions from happening (GO and RETURN-FROM)
  * Restore ability for ABCL to be build host for SBCL
  * CLOS performance improvements through looser COMPILE dependency
  * Compilation fix for highest SPEED setting (triggered by CL-BENCH)
  * COMPILE's use of temp files eliminated
  * OpenJDK on Darwin now correctly identified
  * Incorrect block names for SETF functions defined by LABELS
  * Fixed MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL with more than 8 arguments
  * Incorrect identification of lexical scope on recursive TAGBODY/GO
    and BLOCK/RETURN-FROM blocks (compiler and interpreter)
  * Correctly return 65k in char-code-limit (was 256, incorrectly)
  * Fixes to be able to run the BEYOND-ANSI tests (part of ANSI test suite)
  * Compiler typo fix
  * Implementation of mutex functionality moved to lisp from Java
  * Functions handling #n= and #n# are now compiled
  * Autoload cleanups
  * System package creation cleaned up
  * CHAR-CODE-LIMIT correctly reflects CHAR-CODE maximum return value
  * Precompiler macroexpansion failure for macros expanding into
      special operators


Version 0.16.1
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svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.16.1/abcl
(17 Oct, 2009)

Bugs fixed:

  * More careful checking for null args in LispStackFrame
  * Honor appearance of &allow-other-keys in CLOS MAKE-INSTANCE
  * Fix #63: GO forms to non-existent TAGBODY labels would exit ABCL
  * Don't leak temp files during compilation

Version 0.16.0
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(06 SEP 2009)
svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.16.0/abcl

  Summary of changes:
  ------------------
  * Fixed generated wrapper for path names with spaces (Windows)
  * Fixed ticket #58: Inspection of Java objects in Lisp code
  * Restored functionality of the built-in profiler
  * Profiler extended with hot-spot counting (as opposed to call counting)
  * Stack sampling in the profiler moved to scheduler thread to
    reduce impact on the program execution thread
  * THE type-checking for the interpreter
    (for simple-enough type specifications)
  * Added structure argument type checking in structure slot
    accessor functions
  * Make GENSYM thread-safe
  * Various performance fixes found by running the raytracer
    from http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/benchmark.html
  * Better initarg checking for make-instance and change-class
    Fixes ansi-test errors CHANGE-CLASS.1.11, MAKE-INSTANCE.ERROR.3,
    MAKE-INSTANCE.ERROR.4, CHANGE-CLASS.ERROR.4 and SHARED-INITIALIZE.ERROR.4
  * Improve performance of StackFrames (Erik Huelsmann, Ville Voutilainen,
    with input from Peter Graves and Douglas Miles)
  * Improve performance of CLOS eql-specializers via cache (Anton Vodonosov)
  * 'build-from-lisp.sh' shell script (Tobias Rittweiler)
  * New threading primitives aligned with Java/JVM constructs (Erik Huelsmann)

      SYNCHRONIZED-ON
      OBJECT-NOTIFY
      OBJECT-NOTIFY-ALL
  * THREADS package created to hold threads related primitives:

      THREADP THREAD-UNLOCK THREAD-LOCK THREAD-NAME THREAD-ALIVE-P
      CURRENT-THREAD DESTROY-THREAD INTERRUPT-THREAD WITH-THREAD-LOCK
      MAKE-THREAD-LOCK MAKE-THREAD INTERRUPT-THREAD

      MAPCAR-THREADS

      GET-MUTEX MAKE-MUTEX WITH-MUTEX RELEASE-MUTEX

    These primitives are still part of the EXTENSIONS package but are
    now to be considered as deprecated, marked to be removed with
    0.22
  * Stacktraces now contain calls through Java code relevant to
    debugging (Tobias Rittweiler)

    Backtrace functionality been moved from EXT:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST to
    SYS:BACKTRACE to mark this changes.  The methods SYS:FRAME-TO-STRING
    and SYS:FRAME-TO-LIST can be used to inspect the new
    LISP_STACK_FRAME and JAVA_STACK_FRAME objects
  * Various stream input performance optimizations
  * Fixed breakage when combining Gray streams and the pretty printer
  * Performance improvements for resolution of non-recursive #=n and #n#


Version 0.15.0
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svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.15.0/abcl
(07 Jun, 2009)

 Summary of changes:
 -------------------
  * 2 more MOP exported symbols to support Cells port
  * Updated FASL version
  * Support (pre)compilation of functions with a non-null lexical environment
  * Compiler and precompiler cleanups
  * 'rt.lisp' copy from ANSI test suite removed
  * Many documentation additions for the (pre)compiler
  * JSR-233 support improvements
  * Refactoring of classes:
   - deleted: CompiledFunction, ClosureTemplateFunction, CompiledClosure,
              Primitive0R, Primitive1R, Primitive2R
   - renamed: CompiledClosure [from ClosureTemplateFunction]
  * Compiler support for non-constant &key and &optional initforms
  * Fixed ticket #21: JVM stack inconsistency [due to use of RET/JSR]
  * Numerous special bindings handling fixes, especially with respect
    to (local) transfer of control with GO/RETURN-FROM
  * Paths retrieved using URL.getPath() require decoding (r11815)
  * Build doesn't work inside paths with spaces (r11813)
  * Compilation of export of a symbol not in *package* (r11808)
  * Moved compiler-related rewriting of forms from precompiler to compiler
  * Removed chained closures ('XEPs') in case of &optional arguments only
  * Loading of SLIME fails under specific conditions (r11791)
  * Binding of *FASL-ANONYMOUS-PACKAGE* breaks specials handling (r11783)
  * Fixed ANSI tests: DO-ALL-SYMBOLS.{6,9,12}, DEFINE-SETF-EXPANDER.{1,6,?},
      MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ.{5,8}, SYMBOL-MACROLET.8, COMPILE-FILE.{17,18}
  * COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE second and third values after a failed
      invocation inside the same compilation-unit (r11769)
  * JCLASS on non-existing classes should signal an error (r11762)
  * Dotted lambda lists break interpretation (r11760)
  * Implementation of MACROEXPAND-ALL and COMPILER-LET (r11755)
  * Switch from casting to 'instanceof' for performance (r11754)
  * Google App Engine support: don't die if 'os.arch' isn't set (r11750)
  * Excessive stack use while resolving #n= and #n# (r11474)


Version 0.14.1
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(5 Apr, 2009)
svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.14.1/abcl

 Summary of changes:
 -------------------
  * Include this CHANGES file and scripting files in the tar and zip files


Version 0.14.0
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(5 Apr, 2009)
svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.14.0/abcl

 Summary of changes:
 -------------------
  * Increased clarity on licensing (Classpath exception
     mentioned in COPYING, removed LICENSE)
  * Resolved infinite recursion on TRACEing the compiler
  * Changes on the lisp based build system for parity with Ant
  * Fixed interpreter creation in Java Scripting
  * libabcl.so no longer created; it was solely about installing
     a SIGINT handler. Libraries should not do that.
  * boxing of LispObject descendants in JCALL/JCALL-RAW fixed
  * OpenBSD and NetBSD platform detection
  * fixed special bindings restores in compiled code for
     MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND/LET/LET*/PROGV and function bodies
  * introduced variadic list() function to replace list1() ... list9()
  * fix return value type of ACOS with complex argument
  * fixed precision of multiplication of complex values
  * fixed use of COMPILE inside file compilation (i.e. COMPILE-FILE)
  * fix expansion of macros inside RESTART-CASE
     (fixes RESTART-CASE ANSI failures)
  * fix macroexpansion in the precompiler
  * Fixnum and Bignum now use a static factory method;
      constructors are now private -> increases chances of numbers
      being EQ
  * Code cleanup in EXPT to fix (EXPT <any-number> <Bignum>)


Version 0.13.0
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(28 Feb, 2009)
svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.13.0/abcl

 Summary of changes:
 -------------------
  * Separated J and ABCL into two trees
  * Many many compiler code cleanups
  * NetBeans project files
  * Support for CDR6 (See http://cdr.eurolisp.org/document/6/)
  * More efficient code emission in the compiler
  * Ant build targets for testing (abcl.test)
  * Use ConcurrentHashMap to store the lisp threads for increased performance
  * Fix adjustability of expressly adjustable arrays (ticket #28)
  * Fix calculation of upperbound on ASH in the compiler
     (don't calculate numbers too big, instead, return '*')
  * Introduce LispInteger as the super type of Bignum and Fixnum
  * Boxing/unboxing for SingleFloat and DoubleFloat values,
      inclusive of unboxed calculations
  * Fixed URL decoding bug in loadCompiledFunction (use java.net.URLDecoder)
  * Fixed line number counting
  * Inlining of simple calculations (+/-/*)
  * All static fields declared 'final'
  * Add support for java.lang.Long based on Bignum to our FFI