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========================== C M U C L 21 a =============================
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The CMUCL project is pleased to announce the release of CMUCL 21a.
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This is a major release which contains numerous enhancements and
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bug fixes from the 20f release.
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CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp
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programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It
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mainly conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard. CMUCL provides a
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sophisticated native code compiler; a powerful foreign function
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interface; an implementation of CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System,
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which includes multi-methods and a meta-object protocol; a source-level
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debugger and code profiler; and an Emacs-like editor implemented in
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Common Lisp. CMUCL is maintained by a team of volunteers collaborating
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over the Internet, and is mostly in the public domain.
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New in this release:
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* Known issues:
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* Feature enhancements
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* The darwin/ppc port can create executables now. Current
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implementation is rather buggy, though.
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* Changes
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* Micro-optimize `SCALE-FLOAT` to do multiplication when possible.
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* Update to ASDF 3.1.5.
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* The external-format `:UTF` is no longer an alias for `:UTF-8`.
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* `:ELF` feature added for solaris.
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* `LISP:WITH-STRING-CODEPOINT-ITERATOR` added to iterate over the
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codepoints in a string. This works the same as
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`WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR`.
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* `LISP:WITH-STRING-GLYPH-ITERATOR` added to iterate over the glyphs
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in a string. Works like `WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR`.
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* `LOOP` supports new extended keywords
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* `(loop for cp being the codepoint of string ...)`
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* `codepoints`, `code-point`, and `code-points` are aliases for
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`codepoint`.
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* `(loop for g-string being the glpyh of string ...)`
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* `glyphs` is an alias for `glpyh`.
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* The `UNIX` package has been split into two parts. By default the
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`UNIX` package contains just enough to build CMUCL. If you want
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the rest of the functionality, use `(require :unix)`.
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* Added clx-inspector module.
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* ASDF documentation included in html, info, and pdf formats in
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`contrib/asdf/doc/`.
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* If `-quiet` is given, don't print out the herald, even if the user
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init files add things to the herald. (Previously, these would
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get printed out.) Also, `-quiet` no longer removes the herald
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items; you can sill print out the entire herald using `(print-herald)`
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* ANSI compliance fixes:
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* See Issue #3, #4, #5, #7.
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* Bugfixes:
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* On ppc machines with clock speeds over 2 GHz or so,
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`LISP::CYCLES-PER-TICK` is no longer negative. This caused the
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cycle count from `TIME` to be negative.
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* `EXTERN-ALIEN-NAME` unified not to prepend an underscore if `:ELF`
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is a `*FEATURE*`.
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* Motifd will work as either a 32-bit or 64-bit app.
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* Various bugs in clm fixed:
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* Occasional `RXmStringGetLtoR` crash fixed.
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* Motifd text callback fixed.
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* Support for 64-bit time_t on NetBSD added. This allows cmucl to
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run on more recent versions of NetBSD.
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* The empty package `LOOP` has been removed.
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* Executables on x86 can be created once again. This ability was
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inadvertently broken when x86 support was removed.
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* `(log number base)` no longer generates an error when one of the
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args is a `double-double`.
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* Fix bug in `kernel::dd-%log2` which returned the wrong value.
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* More accurate values for `(log x 2)` and `(log x 10)`:
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* Add log10 implementation for double-doubles so that `log10(10^n) = n` for integer `n`.
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* An accurate `log2` function added so that `log2(2^n) = n`.
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* All unit tests pass successfully on darwin/x86, linux/x86, and
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solaris/sparc. Darwin/ppc fails most of the tests dealing with
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exceptions for the special functions.
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* Fix compiler warnings in motif about destructive functions
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discarding their results.
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* Move back some `UNIX` functionality back into the core. asdf
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wants `unix-getenv` and slime wants `unix-execve` and `unix-fork`.
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* Increase `*ERROR-PRINT-LINES*` to 10.
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* Updated FreeBSD 9.3 support for building motifd.
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* Issue #4 updated:
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* ELT did not terminate when the index was negative.
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* Trac Tickets:
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* Ticket ~~[#54](https://trac.common-lisp.net/cmucl/ticket/54)~~ fixed.
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* Ticket ~~[#95](https://trac.common-lisp.net/cmucl/ticket/95)~~ fixed.
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* Ticket ~~[#110](https://trac.common-lisp.net/cmucl/ticket/110)~~ fixed.
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* Ticket ~~[#112](https://trac.common-lisp.net/cmucl/ticket/112)~~ fixed.
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* Gitlab tickets:
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* Issue #1: Handle funcall in compiler macro functions.
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* Issue #5: Give better error message when using T in CASE.
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* Issue #4: ELT on lists does not signal an error when given
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invalid index.
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* Issue #3: Shadowing compiler macro functions.
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* Issue #7: Local functions and get-setf-expansions
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* Issue #8: Constants and top-level code
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* Other changes:
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* Cross compile scripts from x86 to sparc and ppc updated to work
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again to cross-compile from the current snapshot.
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* motifd is a 64-bit binary on linux again, instead of 32-bit.
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* Improvements to the PCL implementation of CLOS:
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* Changes to building procedure:
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* Dependencies for motifd are autogenerated.
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* Cross compile from darwin/x86 to solaris/x86 fixed to work
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correctly.
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This release is not binary compatible with code compiled using CMUCL
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20f; you will need to recompile FASL files.
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See <http://www.cmucl.org> or
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<http://trac.common-lisp.net/cmucl> for download information,
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guidelines on reporting bugs, and mailing list details.
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We hope you enjoy using this release of CMUCL! |