New version of CLISP

[haible (Bruno Haible)]

A new version of CLISP is at the usual place, in
ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de:/pub/lisp/clisp/source/.

Full source is in the files clispsrc-*.tar.z, context diffs since the last
release are in the file clispsrc-1995-04-04-to-1995-04-25.tar.z.


Change log since 4 April 1995:


25 April 1995
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User visible changes
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* Michael Stoll has written a graphical user interface for CLISP under
  NeXTstep.

* Added a foreign language module WILDCARD for wildcard matching.

* Added a foreign language module REGEXP for Unix-style regular expression
  matching and searching.

* X3J13 vote <94> is implemented: Calling GENSYM has no side effects except
  incrementing the counter. New variable *GENSYM-COUNTER*.

* New macro FORMATTER converts a FORMAT control string to a function.

* Some FORMAT fixes:
  + X3J13 vote <81> is implemented: The FORMAT ~:^ directive is more useful.
    Warning: Old style "~:^" directives need to be converted to "~#:^".
  + X3J13 vote <82> is implemented: The FORMAT ~D, ~B, ~O, ~X, ~R directives
    accept an optional comma-interval parameter.
  + X3J13 vote <84> is implemented: FORMAT ~C outputs characters with no bits
    as if by WRITE-CHAR.
  + Handling of ~^ within the FORMAT ~? directive.

* X3J13 vote <167> is implemented: New types FILE-STREAM, SYNONYM-STREAM,
  BROADCAST-STREAM, CONCATENATED-STREAM, TWO-WAY-STREAM, ECHO-STREAM,
  STRING-STREAM. New functions OPEN-STREAM-P, SYNONYM-STREAM-SYMBOL,
  BROADCAST-STREAM-STREAMS, CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS,
  TWO-WAY-STREAM-INPUT-STREAM, TWO-WAY-STREAM-OUTPUT-STREAM,
  ECHO-STREAM-INPUT-STREAM, ECHO-STREAM-OUTPUT-STREAM.

* New condition type PRINT-NOT-READABLE.
  New function PRINT-NOT-READABLE-OBJECT.

* New function FINALIZE. (FINALIZE object function) has the effect that
  function will be called when object is being garbage collected.

* DRIBBLE now also redirects *ERROR-OUTPUT*, *TRACE-OUTPUT*, *QUERY-IO*,
  *DEBUG-IO* if they refer to *TERMINAL-IO*.

* Calling SYMBOL-VALUE on a symbol defined as global symbol macro now returns
  the value of the expansion. New function SYMBOL-MACRO-EXPAND.

* Add FFI to the *FEATURES* if the foreign language interface is present.

* Fixed a bug: An IGNORE declaration for a macro's &ENVIRONMENT argument now
  has an effect.

* Fixed a couple of bugs in the foreign language interface: Passing zero size
  arrays did not work, parameters with mode :OUT did not work on SPARC and
  HP-PA, and some error messages were deficient.

* Fixed a bogus error message in SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER.

Portability
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* Fixed a couple of building problems relating to the foreign language
  interface (missing `mark_fp_invalid' and `pr_hex8', missing makefile
  dependencies, support for --with-dynamic-modules, warnings when compiling
  user2.lsp and foreign1.lsp).

* Fixed a building problem: Not all C compilers accept casts in constant
  expressions used as initializers, e.g. gcc-2.5.8.

* Foreign function interface: Fixed a couple of possible bugs in the low-level
  foreign function call routine for i386/486/586, m680x0, SPARC CPUs. Thanks
  to Jvrg Hvhle.

* Small fixes for SCO.

* Added a utility "hln" for making hard links. Needed for "make distrib";
  Solaris "ln" does not make a hard link if a symbolic link is involved.

* On some Unix systems, use "uname -m", not "arch", to determine
  (MACHINE-TYPE) and (MACHINE-VERSION).

* More support for BSDI 1.0, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris.

* Changed STDWIN so that it compiles under X11R6.

Other modifications
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* Speed up compiled calls to FORMAT with literal control string by use of
  FORMATTER.

* Miscellaneous documentation updates.


New binaries have been built for SCO (finally!) and Solaris.


                    Bruno Haible
                    haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de