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Update for 15e.

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......@@ -3,10 +3,16 @@ and executables are freely available via anonymous FTP; this software is
"as is", and has no warranty of any kind. CMU and the authors assume no
responsibility for the consequences of any use of this software.
This is a general beta release, meaning that anyone can FTP it, but we won't be
very sympathetic about catastrophes resulting from your dependence on CMU CL.
This release mostly fixes bugs in the previous release, and if all goes well,
we will announce a later default release of this system
15e will probably be the last version 15 release, and is thus the most stable
system you're going to see for a while. We're reluctant to call it a
"default" release because some things are stably broken:
-- There still isn't any good stack overflow detection. Probably stack
overflow detection won't appear until the C code rewrite associated with
generational GC comes out (version 17 or later.)
-- The Alien/foreign function call mechanism is fairly broken. It doesn't
work at all in interpreted code, and DEF-C-ROUTINE doesn't work properly
for many argument type signatures. We've redesigned and reimplemented
our foreign interface for version 16.
The CMU Common Lisp project's goal is to develop a high quality public domain
system, so we want your bug reports, bug fixes and enhancements. However,
......@@ -39,8 +45,8 @@ FTP compressed tar archives in binary mode. To extract, "cd" to the
directory that is to be the root of the tree, then type:
uncompress <file.tar.Z | tar xf - .
The latest SunOS Sparc release is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ram 9248115 Feb 2 17:13 15d-sun4c_41.tar.Z
As of 2/26/92, the latest SunOS Sparc release is:
15e-sun4c_41.tar.Z (9.3 meg)
The resulting tree is 23 megabytes. For installation directions, see the
section "site initialization" in README file at the root of the tree.
......@@ -99,9 +105,8 @@ also makes use of several imported packages: PCL, CLX and XP. Although these
packages are copyrighted, they may be freely distributed without any licensing
agreement or fee.
Also in /afs/cs/project/clisp/release:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ram 3626581 Feb 2 16:59 15d-source.tar.Z
Image of all ".lisp" source files used to build version 15d.
/afs/cs/project/clisp/release/15e-source.tar.Z (3.6 meg) is an image of all
the ".lisp" source files used to build version 15e.
Totally machine-independent compiler code:
/afs/cs/project/clisp/src/beta/compiler/*.lisp
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