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Release notes for version 1.4 Additions: Regexp? is now exported from the rexexps structure. SRFIs 4, 39, 40, 43, 43, 60, 61, 63, 66, 67, 71, 78 (mostly thanks to David Van Horn) In the command processor, switches were generalized to settings, specifically to customize various printing parameters. See the manual for details. A generic byte-code parser was added to the system; the disassembler uses it. A reinitializers for register actions to be performed after resuming an image was added. A variable-arguments-lists structure implementing a macro for dealing with optional default parameters was added. A get-interrupt-handler procedure was added. An --enable-universal-binary option was added to configure to facilitate building universal binaries on Mac OS X. (thanks to Eric Knauel) The C code now has access to enum sets. Changes: File-options (in the POSIX libary) are now enum sets; this allows using enum-set operations on them. Various changes were made to the VM to enable native-code compilation. Socket addresses are always reusable. 1+ and 1- are no longer valid identifiers. The ordering of in/out thunks of dynamic-wind was changed to be consistent with itself and with the upcoming R6RS. The Windows build is now done using Visual Studio 2005. Bug fixes: Macro-defining macros now work in PreScheme. Opening a file for both read and write via the POSIX libraries wouldn't work correctly. (Reported by Andreas Rottmann.) PreScheme's copy-memory! now works for overlapping regions. Various C compilation problems were fixed. cmuscheme48.el should now work under GNU Emacs as well as XEmacs. Numerous problems with floating-point arithmetic were fixed. A race condition with queues was fixed. (thanks to David Frese) Part of script messages were printed on stdout rather than stderr; fixed. (thanks to Andreas Rottmann) A shadowing bug in the debugging package was fixed. (thanks to Taylor Campbell) A bug in the CML sync-group primitive was fixed. (thanks to Heath Putnam) Various errors in SRFI 13 were fixed. A bug in the auto-integrator was fixed. (thanks to Taylor Campbell) A bug in load-dynamic-externals was fixed. (thanks to Taylor Campbell) Several bugs in vector-merge were fixed. (reported by Matthias Radestock) The CML wrap was made correctly tail-recursive. (reported by Heath Putnam) A bug in the PreScheme C backend, that would sometimes incorrectly delete tail calls without a return value, was fixed. (reported by Eric Merritt) Several bugs in interface walking were fixed. (reported by Taylor Campbell) A bug in the PreScheme compiler affecting the removal of unused procedures was fixed. (thanks to Eric Knauel) Some precedence bugs in the C stubgs for the regexp code were fixed. (thanks to Matthew Dempsky) A bug in the regexps package for regexps without submatches was fixed. (set-current-proposal! (current-proposal)) no longer raises an exception. (thanks to Taylor Campbell) A bug in package caching was fixed. (thanks to Taylor Campbell) A bug in the generation of environment maps was fixed. (thanks to Taylor Campbell) The Windows installer package should now work even on systems that have delayed variable expansion on by default. (thanks to Emilio Lopes) Exception handlers that return from raise are now handled correctly. (reported by Norbert Freudemann) Release notes for version 1.3. Jump to top of page.