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@@ -8,57 +8,12 @@ Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org. Changes in 2.1.7 (changes since the 2.1.6 alpha release): -* New deprecations - -** `SCM_FDES_RANDOM_P' - -Instead, use `lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_CUR)' directly. - -* FIXME fold in 2.1.6 changes to main NEWS - - -Changes in 2.1.6 (changes since the 2.1.5 alpha release): - * New interfaces -** suspendable-continuation? - -This predicate returns true if the delimited continuation captured by -aborting to a prompt would be able to be resumed. See "Prompt -Primitives" in the manual for more. - -** scm_c_prepare_to_wait_on_fd, scm_c_prepare_to_wait_on_cond, -** scm_c_wait_finished - -See "Interrupts" in the manual for more. - * Performance improvements - -** Support unboxed floating-point comparisons - -Thanks to David Thompson for this work. - +* New deprecations * Incompatible changes - -** Rename new array functions - -See "Arrays as arrays of arrays" in the manual for more. - * Bug fixes -** `scm_gc_warn_proc' writes directly to stderr - -The garbage collector sometimes has warnings to display to the user. -Before, Guile would see if the current warning port was a file port, and -in that case write the warning to that file, and otherwise default to -stderr. Now Guile just writes to stderr, fixing a bug where determining -the current warning port would allocate and thus deadlock as the GC -warnings are issued with the GC lock held. - -** Fix miscompilation in significant-bits computation for loop vars -** Fix many threading bugs -** Fix macOS portability bugs -Thanks to Matt Wette! - Previous changes in 2.1.x (changes since the 2.0.x series): @@ -316,6 +271,17 @@ See "R6RS Transcoders" in the manual. See "Atomics" in the manual. +** suspendable-continuation? + +This predicate returns true if the delimited continuation captured by +aborting to a prompt would be able to be resumed. See "Prompt +Primitives" in the manual for more. + +** scm_c_prepare_to_wait_on_fd, scm_c_prepare_to_wait_on_cond, +** scm_c_wait_finished + +See "Interrupts" in the manual for more. + ** File descriptor finalizers See "Ports and File Descriptors" in the manual. @@ -816,6 +782,10 @@ scm_t_debug_info', `scm_pure_generic_p', `SCM_PUREGENERICP', Instead, use the symbol values `none', `line', or `block', respectively, as arguments to the `setvbuf' function. +** `SCM_FDES_RANDOM_P' + +Instead, use `lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_CUR)' directly. + ** Arbiters Arbiters were an experimental mutual exclusion facility from 20 years |