From cracauer Sun Apr 14 20:43:46 2002 Return-Path: Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g3EIhkM62273 for cmucl-announce@cons.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:43:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cracauer) Resent-Message-Id: <200204141843.g3EIhkM62273@schlepper.zs64.net> Received: from laas.laas.fr (laas.laas.fr [140.93.0.15]) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3EHkZN61146 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:46:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from emarsden@laas.fr) Received: from melbourne.laas.fr (melbourne [140.93.21.103]) by laas.laas.fr (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3EHkYrS020728 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:46:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from emarsden by melbourne.laas.fr with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16wo5D-0000WZ-00 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:46:35 +0200 To: cmucl-announce@cons.org Subject: [ANN] CMUCL 18d released From: CMUCL Project Organization: Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:46:35 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Eric Marsden Resent-From: cracauer@cons.org Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:43:46 -0400 Resent-To: cmucl-announce@cons.org ========================== C M U C L 18 d ============================= March 11, 2002 The CMUCL project is pleased to announce the release of CMUCL 18d. This is a major release which contains numerous enhancements and bugfixes from the 18d release. CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It mainly conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard. CMUCL provides a sophisticated native code compiler; a powerful foreign function interface; an implementation of CLOS; the Common Lisp Object System; which includes multimethods and user-defined method combinations; a metaobject protocol based on AMOP; a source-level debugger and code profiler; and an Emacs-like editor implemented in Common Lisp. CMUCL is maintained by a team of volunteers collaborating over the Internet, and is in the public domain. Features new in this release: * Feature enhancements: - a new platform, OpenBSD/x86 is supported - significant performance enhancements: code compiled with this release is approximately 10% faster than with 18c - Logical Pathname Translations can be auto-loaded - The presence of gray streams support is now clearly announced in the herald, and via the :gray-streams feature. - Support for READ- and WRITE-SEQUENCE on Gray streams, via STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE - New :class keyword option for OPEN, which lets it return Gray streams classes wrapped around lisp-streams. - Facility for addition of clean-up hooks, that are called before CMUCL is exited via EXT:QUIT - Added hooks that support the addition of advanced command processing capabilities for user input (similar to functionality in ACL) - support for hierarchical packages, as per ACL, signaled by the :relative-package-names feature. - the modules: pathname is initialized sensibly, to make REQUIRE work correctly out of the box. For example, you can now say (require :clx) to load the precompiled clx-library subsystem. - Report class information when describing symbols that are class names. - Compilation of PCL-generated code is now silent by default. This can be controlled by changing PCL::*COMPILE-LAMBDA-SILENT-P*. - Further ongoing speed tuning to various numerical routines. - LOAD-FOREIGN has added :verbose option that honors *LOAD-VERBOSE* - Support larger FD_SETSIZE on FreeBSD - Debugger short-cuts to invoke available restarts now behave more predictably (all available restarts get a numeric command, and named restarts get their name as a command, unless that is already taken, i.e. as is indicated by the debugger display) - Improvements to disassembly listings on x86 and SPARC: o Sparc v9 instructions are longer so make the opcode column wider. o Allow printing of integer registers to use the Sparc register names instead of the Lisp names. o Add support for printing various notes during disassembly: o Assembler routines, foreign functions, and foreign constants o The value of constants in the code header o References to static symbols o Notes about pseudo-atomic stuff o Some hints on header-word types - Sparc port supports 64-bit integers for parameters and return values when calling foreign functions. - Try to use branch prediction on the sparc port. - Compiler understands the type of the function SIGNUM - Loading of files given by logical pathnames without a type will do a search for possible fasl files instead of just FASL. - Some optimizations to ALIEN-SAP to speed up alien access. * Numerous ANSI compliance fixes: - EVAL-WHEN behaviour should now be in line with ANSI spec - PROCLAIM no longer has a compile-time effect, so many old uses of this should use DECLAIM instead - DEFMACRO no longer has compile-time effect only when at toplevel - The interaction of structure-printing and print-object now matches ANSI spec more closely - Duplicate keyword arguments are now allowed in lambda-list destructuring operators. - READTABLE-CASE is now copied by COPY-READTABLE - fixes to the precedence lists of several error conditions - :CLTL2, :DRAFT-ANSI-CL, :X3J13 features removed - Removed various CLtL1/CLtL2-only exports from the COMMON-LISP package (COMPILER-MACROEXPAND, COMPILER-MACROEXPAND-1, DEFINE-SETF-METHOD, GET-SETF-METHOD, GET-SETF-METHOD-MULTIPLE-VALUE, LOGICAL-PATHNAME-P, SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-STRING, GENERIC-FLET, GENERIC-LABELS, WITH-ADDED-METHODS, HASH-TABLE-WEAK-P) - changes to logical pathname semantics - LOAD and COMPILE-FILE accept :EXTERNAL-FORMAT as required by ANSI, but ignore its value. * Numerous bugfixes: - fix for bogus warnings based on stale function type information for redefined functions - fix for printing of bit vectors (printer was incorrectly respecting radix and base control vairables). Also bugfixes to pretty printing of vectors - Fix sxhash and equal hash tables for strings with fill-pointers - read-sequence now works with byte-vectors and strings for concatenated-streams - Fix to handling of infinities in floating-point comparisons - Fix bug in handling of certain complex numbers by log - Fixed handling of floating point errors by handler-bind - Fixed broken INVALID-METHOD-ERROR and added stricter checks in standard method combination for the qualifiers on methods - Fixed calling of NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD for GFs with no defined methods - Fixed missing coercion to class in argument processing of the :METHOD-CLASS option to DEFGENERIC, which caused GENERIC-FUNCTION-METHOD-CLASS to return the uncoerced class name, breaking PCL and foreign code - Various fixes to parameters and events in CLX - COMPILE-FILE heeds logical-pathname translations for output file spec - Rewrite of deftransform for concatenate, because the original deftransform could cause the compiler to spend enormous (minutes!) amounts of time trying to derive the type of the START variable. - Allow only one docstring in relevant bodies, as processed by SYSTEM:PARSE-BODY - Several fixes to FORMAT: tilde dollarsign was not printing the correct amount of padding; tilde slash was not accepting a function name prefixed with two colons; ~F was not printing complex and non-numeric arguments correctly - Better error checking for arguments to FILE-LENGTH, FLOAT-RADIX - vector-push-extend works for adjustable arrays of zero length - Respect :order argument to short form of define-method-combination - Fix destructuring in AND sub-clauses of WITH-CLAUSES for LOOP - IGNORE declarations work for symbol-macros now - Changed handling of static libraries as the first argument to load-foreign, so that all archive members are loaded (like the user expects). - Stricter argument checking for ADJUST-ARRAY, which also doesn't shrink non-adjustable vectors in place anymore. - Removed forced defaulting of unsupplied :DIRECT-SUPERCLASSES and :DIRECT-SLOTS arguments by ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS, as required by AMOP. - Fixed shared-initialize for std-class to correctly interpret unsupplied :direct-superclasses. - CATCH now works correctly for immediate fixnum and character tags - Fix some bugs in the ash deftransform. - Fix a bug in printing logical pathnames with a file version given. - Fixed a sparc backend bug where offsets were generated that couldn't fit in an offset field of an instruction. - Complex division vop was wrong (only for Sparc with :complex-vops *feature*) - Stack clearing code is incorporated into the Sparc port - The deprecated branch and taddcctv instructions shouldn't be used at all on V9 builds. * Other changes: - Default for CMUCLLIB on Linux changed to match the default on other Unices, namely /usr/local/lib/cmucl/lib/ - The DEFSYSTEM facility that was distributed as part of the contrib archive (but not maintained by the CMUCL team) has been removed from the source distribution. A more up to date and maintained version is available from CLOCC, at . * Code cleanups: - Changes to PCL (the CLOS implementation included with CMUCL) to remove code for other Common Lisp implementations. - The features propagate-float-type, propagate-fun-type, and constrain-float-type are now the default and only behaviour. Remove those features from your build scripts. * Changes to rebuilding procedure: - the directory src/bootfiles/18c contains a number of files required to bootstrap compilation from the 18c release. See the README in that directory for usage instructions. - the :NO-CLX, :NO-HEMLOCK etc features which are used to control subsystem compilation during the build phase are no longer present in the final cores. - Added new new target 'initial-map' that can make a 'lisp.nm' file from whatever 'lisp' executable is in the "target:lisp/" directory without depending on the rest of the source code being available. Used when setting up a build directory and/or when internals.h doesn't yet exist. - Various minor improvements to the Makefiles This release is not binary compatible with code compiled using CMUCL 18c; you will need to recompile FASL files. See for download information, guidelines on reporting bugs, and mailing list details. We hope you enjoy using this release of CMUCL! From cracauer Thu Apr 25 15:50:46 2002 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g3PDokc59163 for cmucl-announce@cons.org; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:50:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cracauer) Resent-Message-Id: <200204251350.g3PDokc59163@schlepper.zs64.net> Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3P3mbN48310; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:48:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cmucl-imp-bounce@cons.org) Received: with LISTAR (v1.0.0; list cmucl-imp); Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:48:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3P3maN48303 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:48:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pmai@pmsf.de) Received: from fwd06.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 170aFC-00010L-00; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:48:30 +0200 Received: from dent.bln.pmsf.de (320001904523-0001@[62.155.170.45]) by fmrl06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 170aF2-0x7Vw0C; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:48:20 +0200 Received: from orion (nobody@orion.bln.pmsf.de [192.168.42.10]) by dent.bln.pmsf.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id FAA12134 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:48:16 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: dent.bln.pmsf.de: Host nobody@orion.bln.pmsf.de [192.168.42.10] claimed to be orion Received: (nullmailer pid 29689 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 25 Apr 2002 03:48:16 -0000 To: cmucl-imp@cons.org Subject: ANN: Yet another set of build scripts From: "Pierre R\. Mai" Date: 25 Apr 2002 05:48:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87d6wophfj.fsf@orion.bln.pmsf.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Sender: 320001904523-0001@t-dialin.net X-listar-version: Listar v1.0.0 Sender: cmucl-imp-bounce@cons.org Errors-to: cmucl-imp-bounce@cons.org X-original-sender: pmai@pmsf.de Precedence: bulk X-list: cmucl-imp Resent-From: root@cons.org Resent-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:50:45 -0400 Resent-To: cmucl-announce@cons.org In case anyone is interested, I've put the current versions of my set of "CMU CL build management" scripts up on my homepage (under the URL http://www.pmsf.de/pmai/CMUCL.html). The key features: - Ability to manage parallel builds for different "targets" from the same set of sources - You only need sources and working CMU CL binaries, everything else is (more or less) set up by the scripts. - Finer-grained control of what is rebuilt, and what isn't. - No Makefiles!(tm) ;) Currently the scripts only work for normal rebuilds, i.e. a script for cross-compiles is missing (the ones I use are not yet ready for prime time). Another problem is that people have to edit the target's setenv.lisp file by hand, in order to get the right *features* into their new cores. This is hard to automate (i.e. deriving them from the current *features*), since only some of the features on *features* are under manual control, with many others being the result of loaded code. Still, maybe the scripts are of use to some... Regs, Pierre. -- Pierre R. Mai http://www.pmsf.de/pmai/ The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein