ECL 10.4.1: =========== * Bugs fixed: - Fixed offset problems in READ/WRITE-SEQUENCE. - In multithreaded ECL, the signal servicing thread was not created due to a stale debug statement. - The tool 'ecl-config' contained unsubstituted values, such as @LDRPATH@ because these variablesls had been renamed in the autoconf file. - The reimplementation of DIRECTORY introduced a bug in pathnames with ending double wildcars, such as "/foo/**/". - EXT:SAFE-EVAL (or cl_safe_eval in C) would attempt to start the debugger when an error was signaled. - The logical hostname EXT: did not have a pathname translation relative to that of SRC: - After loading the compiler, the COMMON-LISP package was left unlocked against changes. - ECL can build again itself using a C++ compiler (--with-cxx thus works). - ecl_make_file_stream_from_fd() did not set the right mode in the stream structure. - ECL did not understand type declarations that involved symbol macros. - (SETF STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT) inserted the wrong format type in some cases. * Visible changes: - The source location annotator records the original pathnames instead of truenames. This allows Slime to find out the ECL sources even if they have been moved. - The signal servicing thread now carries the name SI:SIGNAL-SERVICING, which is different from the name of the threads that are created to actually handle those signals. Users should avoid killing SI:SIGNAL-SERVICING. - FFI:CLINES admits the notation @lisp-object, just like FFI:C-INLINE. The result is that @lisp-object gets replaced with a pointer to the given lisp object, created at run time. - Gray streams implement a new generic function, GRAY:STREAM-FILE-DESCRIPTOR which is used by SERVE-EVENT to gather the C file descriptor or Windows handle used to wait on input from the device. - ECL restores the habit of installing manual pages for ecl and ecl-config. - We have removed the obsolete versions of the documentation files. The up to date documentation now lives in a separate source repository, as explained in http://ecls.sourceforge.net/download.html - The encoding :DEFAULT implies looking up in the special variable EXT:*DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT* the actual value of the encoding, which may be a known one, or :pass-through. - LOAD now accepts the keyword argument :EXTERNAL-FORMAT * ASDF: - ECL's contributed modules and ECL's compiler can now be used in standalone programs, for they are now stored both in FASL form and as statically linked libraries. - ASDF:MAKE-BUILD takes a new keyword argument, :MOVE-HERE, that allows moving the files that ASDF creates to the current directory. :MOVE-HERE can be the boolean value T, in which case the files are output at ./asdf-output/ or a pathname designator with the actual destination. - ASDF:MAKE-BUILD admits a new type, :BINARY, which creates a standalone system (*.asd) accompanied by two binary files, statically linked library (.a or .lib), and a FASL (*.fasb). This can be used, to replace existing systems with precompiled ones. ;;; Local Variables: *** ;;; mode:text *** ;;; fill-column:79 *** ;;; End: ***
