Announcement of ECL v0.9i
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ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to produce
an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the
ANSI
X3J13 definition of the language.
The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a lisp to C
compiler, which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be
called from C programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone
executables from your lisp code and can itself be linked to your
programs as a shared library.
ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris (at least v. 9), Microsoft Windows and OSX, running on top of
the Intel, Sparc, Alpha and PowerPC processors. Porting to other
architectures should be rather easy.
ECL is currently hosted at Common-Lisp.net and SourceForge. The home
page of the project is http://ecls.sourceforge.net, and in it you will
find source code releases, a CVS tree and some useful documentation.
Notes for this release
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This version adds one port: OSX on Intel/x86. The port uses the latest
version of the Boehm-Weiser garbage collector and an unoptimized
version
of the GMP library (because the developers refuse to port the Intel/x86
assembler code to this platform).
Apart from that, this release contains mostly bug fixes. Some of them
are very important. For instance, ECL can now compiled code with
constants that have no printed representation, such as CLOS classes and
objects, but also hash tables and arrays with circular references.
ECL can also be built with support for strings and symbols with unicode
characters (patches by B. Spilsbury). However, since the reader still
does not understand external formats, there is some way until we can
claim that ECL supports unicode.
Changes since 0.9h
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See file src/CHANGELOG or browse online version:
http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ecl/src/CHANGELOG?rev=1.298&root=ecl&view=auto