Hello!
A new development snapshot for CHICKEN 4.6.3 should be available shortly. Please note that this version incorporates quite extensive changes and may include bugs or incompatibilities. In particular, the `regex' libray unit has been replaced with a new `irregex' unit and the old regular-expression API is not provided by the core system anymore. The old API is available as an extension (named, surprisingly, `regex'). Extensions that do stuff like `(declare (uses ... regex ...))' will break, and with the exception of one egg (easyffi), extensions that use the old API have not yet updated dependencies in their .meta files. The next Salmonella run should uncover all extensions that are problematic, though. The news: - the `regex' library unit has been removed and is separately available as an extension which should be fully backwards- compatible - `irregex' is now a core library unit and replaces the `regex' API - `-frwapv' has been added to the default C compiler options - configuration-header fix for BSD systems (thanks to Peter Bex and Christian Kellermann) - added support for `pointer-vectors' (unit `lolevel'): make-pointer-vector pointer-vector? pointer-vector-length pointer-vector-ref pointer-vector-set! - added new foreign type `poiner-vector' which maps to `void **' - new "implicit renaming" macro facility contributed by Peter Bex (see `ir-macro-transformer') - the warning shown when unimported identifiers are used in compiled modules now also shows the name of the procedure where the identifier is referenced (suggested by Alaric Snell-Pym) - the deprecated `random-seed' function has been removed - parameters are now settable and can be modified using `set!' (SRFI-17) - the implementation of overflow-detection for arithmetic operations on fixnums have been replaced and now allow using the full 63-bit range of fixnums on 64-bit systems - fixed serious inlining-bug (thanks to Sven Hartrumpf) cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users