Steel Bank Common Lisp

Update of /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv4515

Modified Files:
	BUGS NEWS version.lisp-expr 
Log Message:
0.7.8.4:
	merged NJF ports of CMU CL patches...
	...fixing bug 142 (%NATURALIZE-C-STRING consing, fixed in CMU 
		CL by rtoy)
	...improving MOP conformance (SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION
		returning :CLASS not the class itself, fixed by 
		Gerd Moellman cmucl-imp 2002-09-17)


Index: BUGS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/BUGS,v
retrieving revision 1.195
retrieving revision 1.196
diff -u -d -r1.195 -r1.196
--- BUGS	23 Sep 2002 16:18:11 -0000	1.195
+++ BUGS	28 Sep 2002 14:39:43 -0000	1.196
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@
 
   This bug was fixed in sbcl-0.7.4.1 by invalidating the PCL wrapper
   class upon redefinition. Unfortunately, doing so causes bug #176 to
-  appear.  Pending further investication, one or other of these bugs
+  appear.  Pending further investigation, one or other of these bugs
   might be present at any given time.
 
 141: 
@@ -786,12 +786,6 @@
   ``(FOO SB-IMPL::BACKQ-COMMA-AT S)
   * (lisp-implementation-version)
   "0.pre7.129"
-
-142:
-  (as reported by Lynn Quam on cmucl-imp ca. 2002-01-16)
-  %NATURALIZE-C-STRING conses a lot, like 16 bytes per byte
-  of the naturalized string. We could probably port the patches
-  from the cmucl-imp mailing list.
 
 143:
   (reported by Jesse Bouwman 2001-10-24 through the unfortunately

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.165
retrieving revision 1.166
diff -u -d -r1.165 -r1.166
--- NEWS	27 Sep 2002 01:57:13 -0000	1.165
+++ NEWS	28 Sep 2002 14:39:43 -0000	1.166
@@ -1299,6 +1299,11 @@
 
 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
   * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away
+  * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
+    string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
+    Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
+  * improved MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to Nathan Froyd porting
+    Gerd Moellman's work in CMU CL)
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe

Index: version.lisp-expr
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/version.lisp-expr,v
retrieving revision 1.555
retrieving revision 1.556
diff -u -d -r1.555 -r1.556
--- version.lisp-expr	28 Sep 2002 06:50:25 -0000	1.555
+++ version.lisp-expr	28 Sep 2002 14:39:43 -0000	1.556
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@
 ;;; internal versions off the main CVS branch, it gets hairier, e.g.
 ;;; "0.pre7.14.flaky4.13".)
 
-"0.7.8.3"
+"0.7.8.4"