More information at
<http://clisp.cons.org/>,
<http://www.clisp.org/>,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/> and
<http://clisp.sourceforge.net/>.
Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp from
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/>
and its mirrors.
Important notes
---------------
* All .fas files generated by previous CLISP versions are invalid and
must be recompiled. This is because the Just-In-Time Compiled code
is
kept with the closures.
Set CUSTOM:*LOAD-OBSOLETE-ACTION* to :COMPILE to automate this.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/system-dict.html#loadfile> for
details.
User visible changes
--------------------
* The top-level configure option --build has been replaced by --cbc
(Configure/Build/Check) to avoid conflict with the standard autoconf
option.
* Experimental Just-In-Time Compilation of byte-compiled closures is
now
done using GNU lightning (this is a configure-time option).
Thanks to Yann Dauphin <yann-nicol...@polymtl.ca>.
* New command-line option -lp adds directories to *LOAD-PATHS*.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/clisp.html#opt-load-paths> for
details.
* New function FFI:OPEN-FOREIGN-LIBRARY allows pre-opening of shared
libraries.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html#dffi-open-lib> for
details.
* New macro EXT:COMPILE-TIME-VALUE allows computing values at file
compilation.
See <http://clisp.podval.org/impnotes/macros3.html#compile-time-
value>
for details.
* New function FFI:FOREIGN-POINTER-INFO allows some introspection.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html#fptr-info> for
details.
* Versioned library symbols are now accessible via the :VERSION
argument of
DEF-CALL-OUT and DEF-C-VAR.
Thanks to Kaz Kylheku <kkyl...@gmail.com>.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html#def-call-out> for
details.
* New functions GRAY:STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and GRAY:STREAM-WRITE-
SEQUENCE have
been added for portability reasons.
Suggested by Anton Vodonosov <avodo...@yandex.ru>.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/gray.html#st-rd-seq> for
details.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*SUPPRESS-SIMILAR-CONSTANT-REDEFINITION-
WARNING*
controls whether the redefinition warning is issues when the new
constant value is visually similar to the old one.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/defconstant.html#defconstant-
similar>
for details.
* REPL commands can now accept arguments.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/repl.html> for details.
* Updated the postgresql module to PostgreSQL 8.3.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/postgresql.html> for details.
* Module syscalls now interfaces to <stdio.h> (for the sake of FFI
modules).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#stdio> for
details.
There are others additions there also, but they are too numerous to
be enumerated here.
* Bug fixes:
+ Fix handling of quoted objects by READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE.
[ 1890854 ]
+ Fix rectangle count in NEW-CLX XLIB:SET-GCONTEXT-CLIP-MASK.
[ 1918017 ]
+ Fix argument handling in NEW-CLX XLIB:QUERY-COLORS. [ 1931101 ]
+ Fix compilation on systems not supporting returning void.
[ 1924506 ]
+ Fix TANH floating point overflow for large floats. [ 1683394 ]
+ Avoid extra aggressive bignum overflow reporting in READ.
[ 1928735 ]
+ Improved floating point number formatting. [ 1790496, 1928759 ]
+ COMPILE no longer discards MACRO doc strings. [ 1936255 ]
+ Improved accuracy of LOG on complex numbers. [ 1934968 ]
+ Fix COERCE for compound float result-types. [ 1942246 ]
+ Fix $http_proxy parsing. [ 1959436 ]
+ Fix LISTEN on buffered streams when the last character was CRLF.
[ 1961475 ]
+ Cross-compilation process has been restored to its former glory,
thanks to the valiant and persistent testing by
Vladimir Volovich <vv...@users.sourceforge.net>.
[ 1928920, 1929496, 1929516, 1931097 ]
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