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Commit cdbd39cd authored by rtoy's avatar rtoy
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Add known issues with executables and FILE-POSITION with external

formats that include a BOM.
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......@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ over the Internet, and is mostly in the public domain.
New in this release:
* Known issues:
- CMUCL cannot create working executable images anymore.
- FILE-POSITION is sometimes off by 2 (4) for input files for
UTF-16 (UTF-32) encodings. This is caused by the BOM
(byte-order mark) which is essentially never seen by Lisp.
* Feature enhancements:
- Read operations using an external format of utf8 are now much
......@@ -29,9 +33,9 @@ New in this release:
space and are never moved by GC. When the arrays are no longer
referenced, they are properly freed. To create an array, use
new the :ALLOCATION :MALLOC parameter to MAKE-ARRAY. Currently,
only arrays of character; 8, 16, and 32-bit integers (signed and unsigned);
single and double floats; and complex single and double floats
are supported.
only arrays of character; 8, 16, and 32-bit integers (signed and
unsigned); single and double floats; and complex single and
double floats are supported.
* ANSI compliance fixes:
......@@ -51,7 +55,8 @@ New in this release:
limit, the limit was set to the power. We really wanted the
absolute valie of the power to used as the new limit.
- FILE-POSITION was returning incorrect values for file streams on
unicode builds. This is fixed now.
unicode builds. This is fixed now. But also see the known
issue listed above.
- The error-output and trace-file files for COMPILE-FILE are now
opened using the same external format as specified in
COMPILE-FILE. Previously, they were opened using the default
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