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Announcement of ECL v0.9c
Announcement of ECL v0.9d
=========================
ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project is an effort to
modernize Giusseppe Attardi's ECL (ECoLisp) environment to produce an
modernize Giuseppe Attardi's ECL (ECoLisp) environment to produce an
implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI
X3J13 definition of the language.
ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris,
Windows/Cygwin and OSX, running on top of the Intel, Sparc, Alpha and PowerPC
processors. Porting to other architectures should be rather easy.
ECL is currently hosted at SourceForge. The home page of the project
is http://ecls.sourceforge.net, and in it you will find source code
releases, a CVS tree and an up to date documentation.
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Notes for this release
======================
This is mainly a bugfix release.
This release add support for compiling lisp code as shared libraries under the
OSX operating system, and makes ECL compile and run again under Solaris/Sparc,
now using 64-bit pointers/fixnums when available.
ECL 0.9c
ECL 0.9d
========
* System design:
- The data structures of the lisp->C translator are being changed
from pure lists, to lisp structures, and the routines for handling
them have now more meaningful names.
- In different systems, dlopen() handles files with name "lib*.so"
differently, causing ECL to crash. To avoid this problem, compiled
code that can be dynamically loaded has the extension "fas".
- COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now acquires the functionality of
SHARED-LIBRARY-PATHNAME and STATIC-LIBRARY-PATHNAME, and it
provides information about the usual name conventions for
executables, libraries, object files, C files, etc.
- Many internal types, such as those used to represent arrays,
vectors, etc, and which do not need to be used directly, have
received the prefix "ecl" to avoid name clashes with C/C++
libraries.
- New tools and makefile rules for building RPM files kindly
contributed by Robert Lehr.
- The interpreter now uses by default 16-bit bytecodes. This avoids
pointer misalignments and SIGBUS signals on architectures which
are sensitive to this, and does not cost too much space. A
fallback option for the Intel, --enable-opcode8, has been
introduced.
- The GMP Library is updated to 4.1.2.
* Errors fixed:
- The compiler was too eager when replacing variables, so that
(let ((exit *exit*) (*exit* (1+ *exit*)))
(declare (special *exit*))
...
(print exit))
would be changed into
(let ((*exit* (1+ *exit*)))
(declare (special *exit*))
...
(print *exit*))
- Fix a bug that prevented ECL from compiling under CYGWIN.
- Remove spurious references that prevented loaded libraries to be
garbage collected. Unfortunately, this also means that the
Boehm-Weiser garbage collector cannot scan the data sections of
any libraries, and that register_root must be used everywhere.
- READ/WRITE-SEQUENCE would read or write one element more than
required.
- LOAD-TIME-VALUE was broken.
- Invoking finalizers during GC could trash the environment of a
running function, either interpreted or compiled.
* ANSI compatibility:
- Hashtables can now have EQUALP as test function.
- The compiler no longer handles IN-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE specially.
When a symbol is loaded from a compiled file, and the home package
of this symbol does not exist, a new incomplete package is
created. If MAKE-PACKAGE is invoked subsequently in this binary
file, the incomplete package is finished and returned. If at the
end of the load process there are still incomplete packages, a
correctable error is signaled.

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exit 2;
fi
ECL_VERSION=0.9c
ECL_VERSION=0.9d
ac_aux_dir=

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fi
dnl Set the version number. This seems the best place to keep it.
ECL_VERSION=0.9c
ECL_VERSION=0.9d
AC_SUBST(ECL_VERSION)
dnl Guess operating system of host. We do not allow cross-compiling.