Greetings! The GCL team is happy to announce the release of version
2.6.6, the latest achievement in the 'stable' (as opposed to
'development') series. Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl for
downloading information.
This release is a minor modification of 2.6.5,
incorporating the known bug fixes that had accumulated on the GCL
errata page together with a few other fixes required for building axiom
on Windows. From the changelog:
gcl (2.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=high
* New upstream release
* Allow .data section to be first in executable, as on solaris. Also
allow for new bfd section size semantics
* Don't try to write map file when not using GNU ld. Also allow
compile-file to process pathnames with whitespace on Windows
* Fix corner case fixnum arithmetic on 64bit machines
* Rework gmp_wrappers semantics for older gcc
* Explicitly mprotect loaded code pages PROT_EXEC on x86 Linux, as FC3
now requires it.
* lisp-implementation-version is GCL
* Reader extension patch allowing for foo::(bar foobar) semantics
* a shell script variable fix in "unixport/makefile" for MSYS
* __MINGW32__ malloc initialization fix in "o/alloc.c"
* Windows file/directory fixes in "o/unixfsys.c"
* MinGW32 -march in configure - removes deprecation warnings
* MinGW32 directory fix - "o/mingfile.c".
* Allow for sysconf to determine clock granularity at compile time to
fix time errors on the Itanium
* Disable SGC on macosx until the sgc/save problem can be fixed.
* Fix fixnum print bug on 64bit
* Fix nil types in room report
* 64bit fixes to fixnum_add and fixnum_sub
* Fix Mac SGC/save bug, at least in part
For the latest information, capabilities, and status of GCL stable,
please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/RELEASE-2.6.2.html.
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