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| 24 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.16</h2> |
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| 25 | <p> |
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| 26 | <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b> |
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| 27 | </p> |
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| 28 | <dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm"> |
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| 29 | <dt>Improved THE type checking</dt> |
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| 30 | <dd>The compiler outputs type checks for simple enough types at |
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| 31 | *safety* levels 1 and 2 now.<br /> |
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| 32 | The interpreter checks simple enough types at all *safety* levels</dd> |
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| 33 | <dt>ANSI test fixes</dt> |
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| 34 | <dd>Fixed tests due to better initarg checking:<br /> |
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| 35 | CHANGE-CLASS.1.11, MAKE-INSTANCE.ERROR.3, MAKE-INSTANCE.ERROR.4, |
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| 36 | CHANGE-CLASS.ERROR.4 and SHARED-INITIALIZE.ERROR.4</dd> |
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| 37 | <dt>Added JVM threading primitives</dt> |
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| 38 | <dd>SYNCHRONIZED-ON, OBJECT-NOTIFY, OBJECT-NOTIFY-ALL equivalents of |
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| 39 | the Java synchronized block, Object.notify() and Object.notifyAll()</dd> |
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| 40 | <dt>New THREADS package to hold threading primitives</dt> |
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| 41 | <dd>The symbols are retained in the old EXTENSIONS package until 0.22</dd> |
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| 42 | <dt>Type checking for structure slot accessor functions</dt> |
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| 43 | <dd>The generated accessor functions for structure slots now assert |
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| 44 | the type of the argument passed in using a THE form</dd> |
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| 45 | <dt>Fixed breakage when combining the pretty printer and Gray streams</dt> |
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| 46 | <dd>The fixes mean changes to the generic functions in Gray streams |
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| 47 | to compensate for the fact that the pretty printer wraps streams.</dd> |
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| 48 | <dt>Various performance improvements</dt> |
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| 49 | </dl> |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.15</h2> |
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| 53 | <p> |
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| 54 | <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b> |
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| 55 | </p> |
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| 56 | <dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm"> |
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| 57 | <dt>Fixed special bindings un-binding in compiled code for (local) |
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| 58 | transfer of control using GO/RETURN-FROM</dt> |
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| 59 | <dd>Special bindings now will get unbound in many more cases and much |
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| 60 | more efficiently upon local transfer of control. |
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| 61 | </dd> |
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| 62 | <dt>Reduced ANSI failures in both compiled and interpreted modes</dt> |
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| 63 | <dd>MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ wasn't working correctly on symbol macros. |
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| 64 | Multiple issues with DEFINE-SETF-EXPANDER, and others. See CHANGES. |
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| 65 | </dd> |
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| 66 | <dt>Multiple JSR-233 (Java scripting) support fixes</dt> |
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| 67 | <dd>See the logs for more: too much to summarize. |
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| 68 | </dd> |
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| 69 | <dt>Compiler new feature</dt> |
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| 70 | <dd>Support for COMPILE-ing functions with non-empty lexical environments - |
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| 71 | which themselves are not being compiled. |
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| 72 | </dd> |
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| 73 | <dt>Google App Engine</dt> |
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| 74 | <dd>Don't break when being run on Google App Engine because 'os.arch' |
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| 75 | isn't set. |
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| 76 | </dd> |
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| 77 | <dt>COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL</dt> |
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| 78 | <dd>CLtL2 primitive COMPILER-LET is now supported in the EXT package, |
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| 79 | so is MACROEXPAND-ALL. |
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| 80 | </dd> |
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| 81 | </dl> |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.14</h2> |
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| 84 | <p> |
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| 85 | <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b> |
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| 86 | </p> |
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| 87 | <dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm"> |
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| 88 | <dt>Fixed special bindings un-binding in compiled code for |
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| 89 | MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND, LET, LET*, PROGV and function bodies</dt> |
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| 90 | </dt> |
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| 91 | <dd>Special bindings now will get unbound even in case of (non-Lisp) |
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| 92 | exceptions. |
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| 93 | </dd> |
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| 94 | <dt>Reduced ANSI failures in interpreted mode</dt> |
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| 95 | <dd>RESTART-CASE wrongly didn't use the macro expansion environment |
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| 96 | to expand subforms. |
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| 97 | </dd> |
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| 98 | <dt>Lisp build system changed for parity with the Ant based build</dt> |
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| 99 | <dd>The Lisp build was lagging behind on adjustments made to the Ant |
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| 100 | based build. abcl.jar generated from either should now be the same. |
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| 101 | </dd> |
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| 102 | <dt>Several fixes to numeric calculations</dt> |
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| 103 | <dd>EXPT fixed for (EXPT NUMBER BIGNUM) and (EXPT BIGNUM RATIO). |
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| 104 | Also, ACOS with a complex double-float argument. |
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| 105 | </dd> |
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| 106 | </dl> |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | |
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| 109 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.13</h2> |
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| 110 | |
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| 111 | <p> |
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| 112 | <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b> |
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| 113 | |
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| 114 | </p> |
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| 115 | <dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm"> |
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| 116 | <dt>JSR-223: Java Scripting Plugin |
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| 117 | </dt> |
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| 118 | <dd>ABCL supports - when built with the <code>javax.script</code> package |
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| 119 | in the CLASSPATH - the interfaces defined in <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/scripting/">JSR-223</a>. |
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| 120 | </dd> |
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| 121 | <dt>Support for inlining FLOAT results</dt> |
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| 122 | <dd>When given the right DECLARE forms, ABCL is now able to inline |
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| 123 | calculations and intermediate values relating to FLOAT types. Before, |
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| 124 | it used to box all FLOAT values and results, without inlining.</dd> |
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| 125 | <dt>Compiler cleanups</dt> |
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| 126 | <dd>Lots of code cleanup in the compiler, such as elimination of |
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| 127 | nearly-equivalent code blocks.</dd> |
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| 128 | <dt>TRACE-ing fixes</dt> |
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| 129 | <dd>TRACE should no longer blow up when tracing FORMAT or inside |
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| 130 | the compiler.</dd> |
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| 131 | <dt>Support for "partial" wildcards in CL:DIRECTORY</dt> |
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| 132 | <dd>Patterns such as #p"cl-*.lisp" are now supported.</dd> |
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| 133 | </dl> |
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| 134 | |
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| 135 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.12 and older</h2> |
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| 136 | |
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| 137 | <p>These release notes have not been created before. If someone takes |
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| 138 | the effort to create them, they will be added for 0.11 and 0.12.</p> |
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