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