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| author | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2020-01-02 13:55:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2020-01-02 13:55:00 +0100 |
| commit | 532614139fbd68ddd746f24897944664f5e32ecb (patch) | |
| tree | eaa27705d4602f8269f4f3a50f9a74db1e1e184d | |
| parent | e3e3e691f817c2b37fbaec6f749cd4d7ce18d857 (diff) | |
| download | guile-532614139fbd68ddd746f24897944664f5e32ecb.tar.gz | |
Update NEWS
* NEWS: Update for 2.9.8.
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@@ -1,39 +1,22 @@ Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1996-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1996-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org. -Changes in alpha 2.9.7 (since alpha 2.9.6): - -* Notable changes - -** Improve JIT code generation - -Native code for unlikely or expensive cases is now generated -out-of-line, improving instruction cache utilization. It makes things -go faster! - -** Fix JIT bug preventing tier-up within loops - -Before, it was possible to see significantly better performance when -forcing eager JIT compilation using the GUILE_JIT_THRESHOLD environment -variable; see "Environment Variables" in the manual. This was due to a -bug that prevented tiering up to JIT code in some cases, and has been -fixed. - -** `iota' in core and SRFI-1 `iota' are the same - -Previously, `iota' in core would not accept start and step arguments and -would return an empty list for negative count. Now there is only one -`iota' function with the extended semantics of SRFI-1. Note that as an -incompatible change, core `iota' no longer accepts a negative count. +Changes in alpha 2.9.8 (since alpha 2.9.7): * Bug fixes -** Fix recently introduced bug causing early abort if stdin is closed +** Fix bug in which abort_to_prompt used an invalid stack pointer +This bug manifested itself as a bootstrap compile error on some systems, +notably Ubuntu 18.04 on x86-64, and was due to failing to recalculate a +local variable after a possible stack relocation. + +** SRFI-35 does a #:re-export-and-replace on `&error' +** SRFI-35 avoids compiler warnings for multiply-defined condition types Changes in alpha 2.9.x (since the stable 2.2 series): @@ -221,6 +204,13 @@ objects. This means that users who #:re-export an imported binding that was already marked as #:replace by another module will now see warnings, as they need to use #:re-export-and-replace instead. +** `iota' in core and SRFI-1 `iota' are the same + +Previously, `iota' in core would not accept start and step arguments and +would return an empty list for negative count. Now there is only one +`iota' function with the extended semantics of SRFI-1. Note that as an +incompatible change, core `iota' no longer accepts a negative count. + * New deprecations ** scm_t_uint8, etc deprecated in favor of C99 stdint.h |