CMUCL commit: src/general-info (release-20b.txt)

[Raymond Toy]

    Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 12:35:50
  Author: rtoy
    Path: /project/cmucl/cvsroot/src/general-info

Modified: release-20b.txt

Add known issues with executables and FILE-POSITION with external
formats that include a BOM.


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 release-20b.txt |   13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


Index: src/general-info/release-20b.txt
diff -u src/general-info/release-20b.txt:1.7 src/general-info/release-20b.txt:1.8
--- src/general-info/release-20b.txt:1.7	Sun Jan 31 11:54:18 2010
+++ src/general-info/release-20b.txt	Sun Jan 31 12:35:50 2010
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
 New in this release:
 
   * Known issues:
+    - CMUCL cannot create working executable images anymore.
+    - FILE-POSITION is sometimes off by 2 (4) for input files for
+      UTF-16 (UTF-32) encodings.  This is caused by the BOM
+      (byte-order mark) which is essentially never seen by Lisp.
 
   * Feature enhancements:
     - Read operations using an external format of utf8 are now much
@@ -29,9 +33,9 @@
       space and are never moved by GC.  When the arrays are no longer
       referenced, they are properly freed.  To create an array, use
       new the :ALLOCATION :MALLOC parameter to MAKE-ARRAY.  Currently,
-      only arrays of character; 8, 16, and 32-bit integers (signed and unsigned);
-      single and double floats; and complex single and double floats
-      are supported.
+      only arrays of character; 8, 16, and 32-bit integers (signed and
+      unsigned); single and double floats; and complex single and
+      double floats are supported.
 
   * ANSI compliance fixes:
 
@@ -51,7 +55,8 @@
       limit, the limit was set to the power.  We really wanted the
       absolute valie of the power to used as the new limit.
     - FILE-POSITION was returning incorrect values for file streams on
-      unicode builds.  This is fixed now.
+      unicode builds.  This is fixed now.  But also see the known
+      issue listed above.
     - The error-output and trace-file files for COMPILE-FILE are now
       opened using the same external format as specified in
       COMPILE-FILE.  Previously, they were opened using the default