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authorMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2019-06-18 15:57:11 -0400
committerMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2019-06-18 15:57:11 -0400
commitc10b6a3f3455f883f29c4b03ea1e5c1fa498974b (patch)
tree3a48774766e782ce87d010121dc71bbecdea13b1 /NEWS
parent8e2919b9529f042c52241d22e1661a242853c2a6 (diff)
NEWS: More tweaks.
* NEWS: Update.
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@@ -153,7 +153,11 @@ applied to very large strings.
** Fix documentation of R6RS 'binary-port?' to reflect reality.
Previously, the documentation incorrectly stated that 'binary-port?'
-always returns #t.
+always returns #t. In fact, it returns #t if and only if the port
+encoding is "ISO-8859-1". The documentation for 'binary-port?' and
+'textual-port?' has been rewritten to reflect the current reality, and
+also to leave open the possibility of changing the behavior of these
+predicates in a future version of Guile.
** Avoid passing NULL to 'memcpy' and 'memcmp'.
@@ -161,6 +165,11 @@ Previously, NULL was sometimes passed to 'memcpy' or 'memcmp' when the
size argument was 0.
** Save and restore errno in the signal handler.
+
+Previously, Guile's synchronous C signal handler failed to save/restore
+errno, although it could change it. This could potentially lead to
+spurious corruptions of 'errno' within threads interrupted by signals.
+
** scm_to_stringn: Avoid passing NULL to c_strcasecmp.
** r6rs-ports: Accept 'port-position' values greater than 2^32.
** r6rs-ports: 'put-bytevector' accepts 64-bit integers.
@@ -188,7 +197,7 @@ size argument was 0.
** Make locale monetary conversion tests be less strict on terminal whitespace.
** Disable test for current value of setitimer on Cygwin.
** Fix gc.test "after-gc-hook gets called" failures.
-** Update iconv.m4 from gnulib, to fix iconv leak during configure.
+** Update iconv.m4 from gnulib, to fix an iconv leak during configure.
** guild compile: Add missing newline in "unrecognized option" error message.
** 'basename' now correctly handles "/" and "//".
** Make srfi-71 visible through 'cond-expand'.