From 49ba75aa2c7a43b58872a03fcf07b75fad151b50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: toy <toy> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:40:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update for some recent changes. --- general-info/release-18e.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/general-info/release-18e.txt b/general-info/release-18e.txt index 4ca773a9e..ebb05398c 100644 --- a/general-info/release-18e.txt +++ b/general-info/release-18e.txt @@ -19,6 +19,16 @@ over the Internet, and is mostly in the public domain. New in this release: * Feature enhancements: + - Karatsuba multiplier added to give faster multiplication for + big bignums. + - The sparc port has experimental support for native 64-bit + integers (unsigned-byte 64) and (signed-byte 64) on sparc v9 + (64-bit) architectures. Enabled if the feature :sparc-v8plus + is set. + - The x86 port better support for linking foreign libraries. You + can now dump cores with foreign libraries and reload the core + without having to reload the libraries. Available if the feature + :linkage-table is set. * Numerous ANSI compliance fixes: - SYMBOL-MACROLET signals an error when an attempt is made to @@ -48,6 +58,9 @@ New in this release: prints a warning about this being poor style. - the type (complex (eql 0)) is accepted now instead of generating an error. + - the sequence functions check to make sure sequences are + specified and that, if lengths are given, the result matches + the given length. * Numerous bugfixes: - READ-BYTE on certain types of multi-byte elements was incorrect -- GitLab