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- Subject: CMU Common Lisp 16f Available
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 14:07:38 GMT
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- Release notes for CMU Common Lisp 16f, 11 December 92
-
- The changes between 16e and 16f are almost exclusively bug-fixes. When we
- announce a version 17 beta, 16f will probably become the default release
- (replacing 15e). The PCL has been upgraded from "March 92 (2a)" to
- "March 92 (2c)", which provides some bug-fixes; also, all of the patches in
- the March-92-PCL-bugs file have been applied.
-
- Enhancements:
- -- PROVIDE & REQUIRE are now back in the system, since proposed ANSI CL has
- reinstated them as deprecated features. See the doc strings for these
- functions and EXT:DEFMODULE.
- -- The SPARC dynamic heap size limit has been doubled from 64meg to 128meg.
-
- Distribution:
-
- CMU Common Lisp is only available via anonymous FTP. We don't have the
- manpower to make tapes. These are our distribution machines:
- lisp-rt1.slisp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.217.9)
- lisp-rt2.slisp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.217.10)
-
- Log in with the user "anonymous" and "username@host" as password (i.e. your
- EMAIL address.) When you log in, the current directory should be set to the
- CMU CL release area. If you have any trouble with FTP access, please send mail
- to slisp@cs.cmu.edu.
-
- The release area holds compressed tar files with names of the form:
- <version>-<machine>_<os>.tar.Z
- <version>-extra-<machine>_<os>.tar.Z
-
- 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 - .
-
- As of 12/11/92, the latest SunOS Sparc release is:
- 16f-sun4c_41.tar.Z (6.8 meg)
- 16f-extra-sun4c_41.tar.Z (3.5 meg)
-
- The first file holds binaries and documentation for the basic Lisp system,
- while the second `-extra' file contains the Hemlock editor, the graphical
- inspector and the CLX interface to X11. The basic configuration takes 16
- megabytes of disk space; adding the extras takes another 8 megabytes. For
- installation directions, see the section "site initialization" in README file
- at the root of the tree.
-
- If poor network connections make it difficult to transfer a 10 meg file, the
- release is also available split into 2 megabyte chunks, suffixed `.0', `.1',
- etc. To extract from multiple files, use:
- cat file.tar.Z.* | uncompress | tar xf - .
-
- The release area also contains source distributions and other binary
- distributions. A listing of the current contents of the release area is in
- FILES. Major release announcements will be made to comp.lang.lisp until there
- is enough volume to warrant a comp.lang.lisp.cmu.
-
- Source availability:
-
- Lisp and documentation sources are available via anonymous FTP ftp to any CMU
- CS machine. [See the "Distribution" section for FTP instructions.] All CMU
- written code is public domain, but CMU CL also makes use of two imported
- packages: PCL and CLX. Although these packages are copyrighted, they may be
- freely distributed without any licensing agreement or fee.
-
- The release area contains a source distribution, which is an image of all the
- ".lisp" source files used to build version 16f:
- 16f-source.tar.Z (3.6 meg)
-
- ________________________________________________________________
-
- DETAILED RELEASE NOTES
-
- [Notes are also in doc/release-notes.txt]
-
- Pretty printer:
- -- Fixed a bug in pprint-let that caused to to barf on (let (nil) ...).
- -- Fixed pprint-lambda-list to print a space before the dot when the tail of
- the lambda list is shared. In other words, print (foo . #1=(bar baz))
- instead of (foo. #1=(bar baz)).
- -- Added an additional use of ~^ in pprint-flet so that (flet (nil) ...)
- doesn't flame out.
- -- Make pretty printer properly process pprint tabs when output is forced.
- -- In format pprint logical blocks, fixed ~^ to act like
- PPRINT-EXIT-IF-LIST-EXHAUSTED instead of blowing out to some containing
- directive.
-
- Compiler:
- -- Fixed compiler internal error with dead-code deletion of top-level code.
- -- Bind *gensym-counter* instead of setting it so that compiling doesn't
- globally reset the gensym counter.
- -- Fixed problem with interpreted LOAD-TIME-VALUE causing undefined function
- VALUE-CELL-REF errors.
- -- Preserve the arglist in interpreted functions for DESCRIBE, etc.
- -- Gag bound-but-not-referenced warnings when the EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
- optimize quality is 3.
- -- Fixed a problem with register allocation conflict analysis which appeared
- when a function was called with ~>= 50 arguments.
- -- Fixed bug with optimization of tail local calls.
- -- Fixed interpreted PROCLAIM/DECLAIM to ignore
- START-BLOCK, END-BLOCK and declared DECLARATION declarations.
- Changed the unrecognized proclamation error to be a warning.
- -- Fixed float heap allocation to not wedge when the store causes a trap
- (SPARC only.)
-
- Trace:
- -- Added pretty-printer directives so that arg lists and results print better.
- -- Fixed UNTRACE not to flame out when untracing untraced functions.
- -- Fixed bug with redefining function traced with encapsulation (e.g.
- interpreted functions.)
-
- Misc bug fixes:
- -- Fixed I/O timeout handling (e.g. for CLX) to correctly borrow from the
- timeout seconds when computing the new value for the timeout microseconds.
- -- Restored proper (prompt) handling of queued CLX events in SERVE-EVENT
- -- Alien enums always take up an int to be compatable with C. Also,
- sort the from-alist so that enum aliens are unparsed in a canonical
- format.
- -- When doing macro destructuring, check to see if some part of a lambda-list
- is a LIST before checking to see if it is a SYMBOL, because we want NIL to
- act like the empty list, and not an attempt to bind NIL.
- -- Fixed PACKAGE-ERROR to have a PACKAGE slot instead of a PATHNAME slot.
- -- Changed DOLIST not to introduce the spurious let around the result form
- when there is no result form. Also, just read the var in the spurious
- let, instead of using IGNORABLE, since the var might be special.
- -- In complex DEFSETF, don't bother creating temp vars for constants. This
- is necessary so that keywords stay keywords, and are not changed to
- gensyms.
-
- Enhancements:
- -- Changed the backquote expanded functions (backq-list, ...) from being
- inline functions to compiler-macros, since although the optimizer does
- eventually get the right code, it has to work awful hard. Changed BREAK
- to accept a condition as well as a format string.
- -- Exported EXT:CONNECT-TO-UNIX-SOCKET and EXT:CREATE-UNIX-SOCKET, which had
- been forgotten before. Added code to CONNECT-TO-UNIX-SOCKET so that Unix
- domain sockets are available for connecting to other processes.
- -- Removed sys:*task-data* and sys:*task-notify* because they aren't used
- even under Mach.
-