diff --git a/general-info/release-18e.txt b/general-info/release-18e.txt index b68fab0092be54332dcd4ab6bf21b81cf89aa99d..b976162f636ebaf9ba610a944bd015565d8fb0fe 100644 --- a/general-info/release-18e.txt +++ b/general-info/release-18e.txt @@ -38,12 +38,15 @@ New in this release: and EXT:VALID-FUNCTION-NAME-P. - Access to the hardware cycle counters on Pentium and UltraSPARC processors has been added, and is reported by the TIME macro. + - On Linux, it is possible to read and write files larger than 2GiB + (Large File Support implementation). Full support for this + requires a 2.4 or a 2.2 kernel with LFS patches. * Numerous ANSI compliance fixes: - SYMBOL-MACROLET signals an error when an attempt is made to bind a special variable or a constant - - the function COMPILE no longer coalesces constants (however, - COMPILE-FILE continues to do so) + - the function COMPILE no longer coalesces constants, as required + by the specification (however, COMPILE-FILE continues to do so) - WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING accepts the :external-format keyword argument - the function WRITE-STRING accepts a NIL value for the :end @@ -82,6 +85,9 @@ New in this release: (without the colon modifier on the closing syntax). - the SUBTYPEP function is more intelligent when dealing with certain hairy types (such as those based on SATISFIES). + - the optional environment argument to the functions TYPEP, + SUBTYPEP and friends are now accepted (but ignored). + - system classes FILE-STREAM and STRING-STREAM have been added. * Numerous bugfixes: - READ-BYTE on certain types of multi-byte elements was incorrect @@ -92,6 +98,8 @@ New in this release: - fix to CLX handling of :any event-spec - fix to boa-constructors ?? - EXPT was not correctly handling a zero exponent + - PROGV was not handling special variables correctly. + - MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ and PSETQ were not handling symbol macros correctly. - index calculations for operations bitvectors of sizes near the ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT could overflow - redefining a class with a changed class precedence list didn't