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@@ -1,3 +1,57 @@ + TXR 175 + 2017-05-15 + + + Features + + - New: Foreign Function Interface (FFI) + - Declare bindings to C-compatible functions in other software + components (dynamic libraries). + - Use Lisp functions as C-compatible from foreign software + components. + - New :prompt command in listener, nicknamed :p, which + turns on prompts, useful in the plain mode listener. + - stat structure has a path slot now, for convenience; + - answers question: if the stat was obtained from a path, + what was that path? + - Built in functions and macros can now be redefined: + only a warning occurs, rather than error. + - New buffer data type. + - Functions related to cptr type exposed. + - Funtions dlopen, dlsym and related functions exposed. + - OOP: + - new and lnew macros now check nonexistence of base type at + expansion time and generate immediate warning. + + Bugs + + - Printing issue with embdedded symbols in quasiliterals. + - Fixed broken printing of quasi-word-list literals. + - @{expr [index]} substitution syntax now indexes into + any kind of sequence, not only lists. + - Tightening in parser to reject certain unassigned syntax + like #[], and better error checking over hash literals. + - Bugfixes in area of processing TXR pattern language in context + of user-defined package. + - OOP print methods can now disable *print-circle* over + recursive print calls. + - Unintering built-in symbols is now possible without + catastrophic results. + - Fixed error in macro-expander's traversal of the special + forms return-from, sys:abscond-from and block*. + - Fixed bug in expander for suspend macro. + - Fixed bug in the ash function when right shifting fixnum integers. + - Fixed tostringp not behaving for float numbers in documented manner. + - mkstring and vec-set-length defend against negative argument. + - lognot and logtrunc defend against negative number of bits. + - Fixed bug in --free-all logic when --vg-debug in effect. + - Fixed incorrectly ordered logic in make-catenated-stream, exposing + a Lisp object to premature reclamation. + - Reproduced as actual issue on Darwin, under the --gc-debug + GC torture test. + + + TXR 174 2017-04-04 |