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Changelog

0.37.0 - TBD

Bug Fixes

  • Yorick Hardy updated string-append and bytevector-append to correctly handle stack memory limits.

  • Yorick Hardy fixed the runtime to return the appropriate types of objects to exception handlers.

  • Yorick Hardy modified the runtime to allow thread-terminate! to take a thread object as an argument, per SRFI 18.

  • @nmeum fixed open_memstream/fmemopen feature detection with GCC >= 14.

  • Fixed a bug in apply where an error may be raised when processing quoted sub-expressions. For example the following would throw an error: (apply cons '(5 (1 2))). Thanks to @srgx for the bug report!

  • Fixed a beta expansion optimization bug where code such as the following would cause the compiler to hang. Thanks to Yorick Hardy for the bug report:

    (define (compile-forever x) x (compile-forever x))

  • Added a fix from Yorick Hardy to define *ai-v4mapped* to zero on platforms where AI_V4MAPPED is undefined.

  • Updated sqrt to properly handle complex results given non-complex input. EG: (sqrt -1) ==> 1i. And updated the parser to properly handle +i and -i. Thanks to Christopher Hebert for the bug reports!

  • Updated cond-expand to raise an error if no clauses match, instead of returning #t.

  • Use remaining stack size to determine where to allocate large objects. This avoids the possibility of a large object overflowing the stack.

0.36.0 - February 14, 2024

Features

  • Enhanced the reader to parse rationals and store them as inexact numbers.
  • Add a stub for (rationalize x y) to (scheme base).

Bug Fixes

  • Yorick Hardy provided a fix to round so that Cyclone will round to even when x is halfway between two integers, as required by R7RS.
  • Updated various numeric functions to properly handle numeric type conversions, including quotient, remainder, numerator, denominator, truncate, truncate-quotient, and /.
  • Fix exact to properly handle complex numbers, including raising an error when passed nan or inf double values.
  • Ensure the runtime properly differentiates between +inf.0 and -inf.0. Thanks to jpellegrini for the bug report.
  • jpellegrini reported that Cyclone returns #f when comparing complex numbers using operators other than =. Instead it is better to raise an error in these situations.
  • lassik and jpellegrini reported that abs was incorrectly returning the real part of a complex number argument. Modified abs to properly handle complex numbers.
  • jpellegrini fixed (srfi 143) so that the following are constants instead of procedures: fx-width, fx-greatest, and fx-least.
  • Raise an error if odd? or even? is passed a decimal number. Thanks to jpellegrini for the bug report.
  • Fix read-line to read entire lines that consist of more than 1022 bytes. Previously the function would only return partial data up to this limit. Thanks to Robby Zambito for the bug report.
  • (include "body.scm") inside a file path/to/lib.sld will look for path/to/body.scm, then fallback to the legacy behavior, and look for $(pwd)/body.scm.
  • Pass append and prepend directories when compiling dependent libraries of a program. This prevents issues where the directories are not made available to any include directives within such libraries.
  • Updated the reader to throw an error if a number cannot be parsed, rather than returning #f.

0.35.0 - August 25, 2022

Features

  • Arthur Maciel added make-opaque to (cyclone foreign).
  • Add memory-streams to the list of symbols that (features) can return, indicating that the current installation supports in-memory streams.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent an error when evaluating a begin expression that contains both a macro definition and an application of that macro. For example:

    begin (define-syntax foo (syntax-rules () ((foo) 123))) (foo))

  • Fix a regression where c-compiler-options was not recognized as a top level form by programs.

  • Enforce a maximum recursion depth when printing an object via display or write, and when comparing objects via equal?. This prevents segmentation faults when working with circular data structures.

  • Added proper implementations of assv and memv. Both were previously implemented in terms of assq and memq, respectively.

0.34.0 - January 2, 2022

Features

  • Separate include/library search directory options from "normal" compiler/linker options and place options passed via the -COPT/-CLNK command-line flags in-between. This allows overwriting the default search paths, since contrary to all other options, the search paths must be prepend for an -I/-L option to take precedence over an existing one.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent segmentation faults in the runtime when setting a global variable to itself.
  • Do not throw an error when exporting a primitive that is not defined in the current module, as built-ins are always available in any context.

0.33.0 - September 24, 2021

Features

  • Allow easier macro debugging from the REPL by using expand. Passing a single expression as an argument will return the expanded expression:

    cyclone> (expand '(when #t (+ 1 2 3)))
(if #t ((lambda () (+ 1 2 3))) )

  • During compilation the compiler will now call itself as a subprocess to perform Scheme-to-C compilation. This allows Cyclone to free all of those resources before calling the C compiler to generate a binary, resulting in more efficient compilation.

Bug Fixes

  • Do not inline calls to system as it could result in multiple calls of the same command.

0.32.0 - August 16, 2021

Features

  • Initiate major garbage collections faster after allocating a huge object (larger than 500K). This allows the system to reclaim the memory faster and keep overall memory usage low for certain workloads.

  • Cyclone will no longer memoize pure functions by default.

  • Added build option CYC_PTHREAD_SET_STACK_SIZE to allow Cyclone to specify a thread stack size rather than using the OS default. EG:

    make CYC_PTHREAD_SET_STACK_SIZE=1 libcyclone.a

Bug Fixes

  • @nmeum fixed (scheme repl) to flush the output port prior to writing the prompt, guaranteeing the prompt is written at the correct time.
  • Fixed fxbit-set? to properly handle negative values of i.
  • Avoid unnecessary renaming of identifiers when the interpreter performs macro expansion.
  • When allocating a large vector we now guarantee all vector elements are initialized before the major collector can trace those elements. This avoids the potential for a race condition which could lead to a segmentation fault.
  • Ensure atomic objects are properly traced by the major garbage collector.

0.31.0 - July 27, 2021

Bug Fixes

Compiler

  • Properly handle vectors literals at the top level of compiled code. Previously this could lead to segmentation faults (!!) at runtime.
  • Fixed an off-by-one error unpacking arguments when calling a primitive as the continuation after a garbage collection.

Base Library

  • Fixed read-line to prevent data loss when used in conjunction with other I/O functions (such as read-char) to read data from the same port. This was because the previous version of read-line used a different internal buffer than our other I/O functions.
  • Fixed a bug in make-list that consumed all available memory when passing a negative list length.
  • Allow a record type to contain fields that are not initialized by the constructor.
  • Built out numerator and denominator with code conforming to R7RS.

SRFI 18 - Multithreading Library

  • Updated thread-start! to return the given thread object, per SRFI 18.
  • thread-join! now returns the result of the thread it was waiting on, per SRFI 18.

C Compiler Warnings

  • Eliminate clang compiler warnings referencing EOF when building the runtime.
  • Updated runtime so the C compiler will no longer generate warnings regarding the string comparisons in Cyc_st_add. Previously this could result in these warnings being spammed to the console when compiling code using Cyclone.
  • Properly escape question marks within strings in generated C code to avoid trigraphs.
  • Avoid an "unused variable" warning from the C compiler when compiling certain recursive functions.

0.30.0 - July 2, 2021

Features

  • Support semantic versioning of winds packages.

0.29.0 - June 15, 2021

Features

  • Improve performance of runtime by more efficiently unboxing known fixnums.
  • Improve performance of compiled code slightly by using more efficient closure calls when possible.
  • Add support for R7RS #d decimal specifier for numbers.
  • Added char-ready? to (scheme base)

Bug Fixes

  • Avoid generating C code containing unused variables. In addition to generating better code this also prevents the C compiler from raising associated warnings.

0.28.0 - April 8, 2021

Features

Bug Fixes

  • Arthur Maciel replaced high resolution code in the runtime to use clock_gettime instead of gettimeofday.
  • Fixed the REPL to no longer automatically exit if an expression evaluates to EOF. However, the REPL will exit as a special case if the EOF character is entered directly, for example via CTRL-D on Linux.

0.27 - March 5, 2021

Features

  • Arthur Maciel added opaque? and opaque-null? predicates to (cyclone foreign).
  • Added import-shared-object to (scheme eval) to allow loading a third party C shared library.
  • Allow C compiler/linker options from a library to be expanded via cond-expand.

Bug Fixes

  • Updated the runtime to avoid a race condition when creating new symbols. Thanks to Skye Soss for the bug report and patch.
  • Prevent the compiler from inlining calls to primitives that open ports, avoiding a range of issues such as an open file operation being inlined across multiple places in the intermediate code. Thanks to Andy Arvanitis for the bug report.
  • Arthur Maciel updated current-jiffy to use clock_gettime.

0.26 - February 3, 2021

Features

  • Enhanced c-define to emit type checks for parameters.

Bug Fixes

  • Allow pretty-print to display contents of a record type.
  • Re-enable optimizations that were broken when vector? was modified to no longer return true for record types.

0.25 - January 25, 2021

Features

  • Our package manager has been renamed to winds. Thanks Arthur Maciel!
  • Added the c-compiler-options expression and -COPT Cyclone compiler option to allow specifying options for the C compiler.
  • Allow c-linker-options to work as a top-level expression in a program.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix import of library dependencies from the interpreter, when the dependencies are imported via cond-expand.
  • Arthur Maciel fixed when and unless to no longer return #f in cases where the expression body is not executed.

0.24 - January 2, 2021

Bug Fixes

  • Sean Lynch fixed a bug where record type predicates do not check the length of the target before checking if the vector is actually a record.
  • Fixed vector? to no longer return true for instances of record types.
  • Do not call eval from the runtime if (scheme eval) has not been imported. Instead we now raise a Scheme error in this case which prevents the possibility of a C segmentation violation. Thanks to Arthur Maciel for the bug report.
  • When allocating very large vectors the object used to fill such a vector may not be transported to the heap. This was a nasty bug that could lead to random memory corruption. Fixed the minor garbage collector to properly track and transport these objects to prevent the possibility of memory corruption.

0.23 - December 1, 2020

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed compilation error in runtime.c on Raspberry Pi / ARM.
  • Have the compiler recompute library dependencies for a program if additional import expressions are encountered during macro expansion.

0.22 - November 3, 2020

Features

  • Added definitions from SRFI 162 (comparators sublibrary) to the (srfi 128) library.
  • Cleaned up printing of call history to make it more obvious which functions were called most recently.

Bug Fixes

  • The compiler now displays a helpful error message to the user when compilation of a program fails due to an error building a dependent library.
  • Enhanced cond-expand support in a library declaration to
    • Properly handle cases where there is more than one cond-expand sub-expression. EG: two begin expressions, a begin / import, etc.
    • Properly handle the case where export is defined by cond-expand. Previously such exports would not be recognized by code importing the library.

0.21 - September 17, 2020

Features

  • Alex Arslan modified the Travis script to add support for FreeBSD continuous integration.
  • Added additional functions to (srfi 132): vector-find-median!, vector-find-median, vector-select!, vector-select, and vector-separate!.

Bug Fixes

  • Updated the Dockerfile to use a non-interactive install. This prevents build problems with the official image on DockerHub.
  • Improved (scheme lazy) to allow force and make-promise to accept an argument of any type. Improved representation of promises to more precisely differentiate them from other objects.
  • Updated (scheme lazy) such that force will recursively force promises.
  • Add type checking to record type accessor functions. We now raise an error if the passed object is of the wrong record type.
  • Fix issues with expanding cond-expand expressions in libraries. Previously there would be issues with the expansion if the code needed to be within the context of a begin.
  • Modified the reader to handle escaped intraline whitespace properly, per R7RS.

0.20 - August 14, 2020

Features

  • Added the ability to call Scheme code from C. This includes:
    • C function Cyc_scm_call which allows execution of arbitrary Scheme code, and returns objects that can be safely used by the caller.
    • C function Cyc_scm_call_no_gc. This function imposes more restrictions but does not register with the Cyclone garbage collector so there is less overhead.
    • Full code examples in the examples/call-scm-from-c directory in the Cyclone source tree.
  • Added the -COBJ compiler flag to allow Cyclone to link an executable using objects that are generated by an external source such as a makefile.

0.19 - August 3, 2020

Features

  • Improved error messages with filename and line numbers are now provided for a wide range of syntax errors.
  • Added c-void type into (cyclone foreign).

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug in the optimized numeric comparison operators when comparing a double with a bignum, that could lead to undefined behavior.
  • Fixed make_empty_bytevector and make_c_opaque parameters on (cyclone foreign).
  • Avoid compilation errors when a program ends with a set! expression. Thanks to Yorick Hardy for the bug report!
  • Fixed a bug with the interpreter such that running an import will no longer remove definitions from the global environment.
  • Fixed another interpreter bug to allow import to load renamed identifiers.
  • Prevent compiler errors when calling an anonymous lambda that accepts an optional argument list.

0.18 - June 8, 2020

With this release we proudly present Cyclone-Winds, the official package manager for Cyclone Scheme. Cyclone-Winds contains a growing list of packages and is an easy way to distribute programs and libraries built using Cyclone. Please join me in thanking Arthur Maciel for writing Cyclone-Winds and making this release possible!

The cyclone-winds binary is installed as part of our bootstrap installation. Alternatively it can be built and installed separately if you already have a copy of Cyclone installed, though version 0.18 or higher is required.

Please visit the Cyclone-Winds site for more information.

Features

  • Added the (cyclone foreign) library to make it easier to integrate with C code using the FFI.
  • Arthur Maciel improved how icyc handles the "-p" flag, to now read/evaluate all expressions passed.

Bug Fixes

  • Added a void type and a new supporting function (void). A void object is also now returned in situations where the return value is undefined: for-each and if expressions with out an else clause.
  • Allow open-binary-input-file and open-binary-output-file to be accessible via the REPL.
  • Fix bytevector? predicate which was accidentally aliased to vector?.
  • Fix list-copy to return a non-list object instead of raising an error, per R7RS.
  • Fixed eqv? to use R7RS semantics to ensure equality of different instances of the same numeric value. The function was previously just an alias of eq?.
  • Support two-argument version of atan.
  • Support start and end arguments to write-string.
  • Updated the string comparison procedures (EG: string=?) to support more than two arguments.

0.17 - April 6, 2020

Bug Fixes

  • Modified binary-port? and textual-port? to correctly differentiate between binary and textual ports.

0.16 - March 11, 2020

Features

  • Updated the C API to optionally allow Cyclone's GC to free memory pointed to by an Opaque object.

    For example:

    my_c_obj = calloc(1, sizeof(*my_c_obj_type));
make_c_opaque(opq, my_c_obj);
opaque_collect_ptr(&opq) = 1; // Cyclone's GC will free this memory

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug in read-bytevector where an extra byte could be introduced when reading multiple chunks of data.
  • Fixed a bug where variables defined within define-syntax and let-syntax are reported as unbound by the compiler.

0.15 - February 26, 2020

Features

  • Added the c-linker-options library directive to allow a library to specify options to pass to the C linker. This prevent compiler errors when linking the final executable.
  • Added the -CLNK compiler option to specify a custom command to provide as a linker option. For example: "-lcurl".

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the division (/) operator to ensure exact arguments will produce inexact results rather than incorrect fixnum results. The example given in R7RS is that (/ 3 4) must not return a mathematically incorrect result of 0. This was previously broken in compiled code though icyc would return the correct result.

0.14 - February 11, 2020

Cyclone now automatically relocates any stack objects when performing a mutation. This prevents a whole range of race conditions that had previously been possible in multithreaded application code. And since this work is done by the Cyclone runtime no special code needs to be added to your applications.

Special thanks to Daniel Mendler, whose discussions were the inspiration for these changes.

Some background:

There was a long-standing issue where a mutation (via set-car!, vector-set!, set!, etc) could allow a global object on the heap to reference objects on a thread's local stack. This is problematic because threads periodically relocate objects from their stack, and for performance reasons these objects are moved without any coordination between threads. Thus it is critical that objects on the stack are only used by the thread that owns them.

In the past we provided functions such as make-shared that could be called from application code to guarantee safety. However, this approach is error-prone and asks too much of anyone using Cyclone for multithreaded development. The proper solution is for Cyclone to avoid this situation in the first place.

Other Features

  • Added CYC_HIGH_RES_TIMERS to the runtime code to allow logging of timer information for the GC. Note this can be passed to the C compiler via the -D option.

0.12 - January 17, 2020

Features

  • When compiling a program with cyclone any library dependencies are automatically built as well. Note:
    • A library will only be built if an object file does not exist for it or if any of the source files are newer than the object file.
    • Only "local" libraries will be built. Cyclone will not automatically attempt to build libraries in system directories.
    • This capability can be disabled by the -no-batch option.
  • Added define-values from R7RS.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent compilation errors when optimizations are disabled via -O0.
  • The compiler now omits the continuation argument when printing the expected number of arguments to a function, to avoid confusing error messages.

0.11.8 - December 30, 2019

Features

  • Added read-bytevector, read-bytevector!, and write-bytevector I/O functions from R7RS.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Windows build using MSYS2 and setup a continuous integration job for this platform to prevent breaking this build in the future.
  • Tweaked build flags to prevent spamming of compiler warnings when using Clang.
  • Modified the compiler to ensure that a variable is not assigned to itself in the generated C code.

0.11.7 - December 5, 2019

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the library path when building on Mac OS.

0.11.6 - December 2, 2019

Features

  • Faster record type constructors.
  • During compilation, validate the number of arguments passed to local function calls.
  • Added the -use-unsafe-prims compiler option to generate faster code for certain primitives by eliminating runtime safety checks.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed integer? such that if x is an inexact real number, then (integer? x) is true if and only if (= x (round x)), per R7RS.
  • @extrasharp fixed issues with definitions in (scheme cxr).
  • @nymacro fixed a bug in the bootstrap Makefile that prevented builds from working on FreeBSD.

Internals

  • When including an internal .scm file used by the compiler, check the current directory before the system directory. This makes it easier to work on certain compiler modules.

0.11.5 - October 30, 2019

Features

  • Added support for LibTomMath 1.2.0 and integrated that library into our source tree to avoid users having to install the library as a separate dependency.
  • Added the -no-call-history flag to potentially allow for faster executables at the expense of call history.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix read-u8, peek-u8, and write-u8 to work with integers (bytes) instead of characters.

0.11.4 - September 27, 2019

Bug Fixes

  • Modified the minor GC write barrier to only track mutations where a heap variable is modified to point to an object on the stack. This significantly improves performance of mutation operations: set!, set-car!, etc.
  • Fixed an issue with make-string and UTF-8 chars. Thanks to Lassi Kortela for the bug report!
  • Added open-binary-input-file and open-binary-output-file from R7RS.
  • Validate the number of arguments passed to if expressions.
  • Raise a useful error instead of aborting the whole program (!) when apply attempts to execute an object of the wrong type.
  • Better handling of edge cases where an object of the wrong type is executed instead of a closure. Previously there were cases where this would cause the runtime to crash.

0.11.3 - August 14, 2019

Features

  • Arthur Maciel added instructions for building Cyclone on FreeBSD.
  • Added support for delays and promises to (cyclone concurrent). Note functions/macros for both types of objects are prefixed with shared- to differentiate them from R7RS definitions from (scheme lazy).
  • Added platform (linux, bsd, etc) to the list of emitted by (features) and to the features recognized by cond-expand.
  • Optimize compilation of vector for five arguments or less, and compilation of map / for-each with two list arguments.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the MSYS2 build script and instructions, so it is possible to build on Windows again!
  • Modified (srfi 27) to use the timer to seed the pseudorandom number generator.
  • Fixed exit to return the appropriate status code when a boolean is passed, per R7RS:

    If no argument is supplied, or if obj is #t, the exit procedure should communicate to the operating system that the program exited normally. If obj is #f, the exit procedure should communicate to the operating system that the program exited abnormally.

  • Enhanced the interpreter (eval) to properly support splicing in definitions introduced by begin.
  • Fixed define-record-type so now it works in the interpreter.

0.11.2 - July 7, 2019

Features

  • Added a new library (cyclone concurrent) with support for atomics, futures, shared queues, and thread pools. As well as helpers for immutability and shared objects. Overall the goal is for this library to make it much easier to write multithreaded programs using Cyclone.
  • Relocated existing libraries to (cyclone match) and (cyclone test).
  • Extended mutex-lock! to support an optional timeout parameter, per the SRFI 18 spec.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed thread-join! to wait properly both for running threads and new threads that have not yet been started.

0.11.1 - May 25, 2019

Features

  • Added support for immutable objects. Any quoted pairs, vectors, bytevectors, or strings will now be flagged as immutable, per R7RS.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the compiler would not always validate the number of arguments passed to a locally-defined function.

0.11 - April 16, 2019

Features

  • During compilation validate the number of arguments passed to locally-defined functions.
  • Improve performance of compiled code a bit by inlining code that tracks call history instead of using a dedicated function in the runtime.
  • Updated build instructions for Mac, thanks Adam Feuer!

Bug Fixes

  • Allow exit to return an integer value as the return code to the OS.

0.10 - March 28, 2019

Features

  • Improve performance in generated C code by allocating data for closures statically where possible, instead of via alloca.
  • Speed up case expressions by using nested if expressions instead of the memv primitive to evaluate conditions with more than one constant. The nested expressions have better cache locality and also avoid any additional object allocation or initialization.
  • Allow passing the 'bin symbol to Cyc-installation-dir to return the location of the installation directory for binaries.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent the possibility of a segmentation fault when passing am improper list to the member and assoc family of functions.

0.9.10 - March 5, 2019

Features

  • Faster initialization of objects create via define-record-type.
  • Generate faster compiled code for calls to vector that contain less than five arguments.

0.9.9 - February 19, 2019

Bug Fixes

  • Fix from Petr Pražák to avoid compilation errors when using newer versions of LibTomMath.

  • Avoid cases where bignums are not initialized properly by the runtime and incorrectly retain a value of zero.

  • Handle the following edge case from R7RS:

    If z is a complex number, then (real? z) is true if and only if (zero? (imag-part z)) is true.

0.9.8 - February 16, 2019

Features

  • Memoize recursive calls to pure functions where possible.

Bug Fixes

  • Arthur Maciel fixed a bug in the compiler back-end where a terminating semi-colon would not be emitted in the C code generated for a short program.

Internal Compiler Enhancements

  • Arthur Maciel updated the cgen module to follow the Riastradh style rules for updating comments. Thanks Arthur!

0.9.7 - January 19, 2019

Features

  • Faster version of list?.
  • Faster compilation of large source files.
  • Do not inline member or assoc to avoid looping over the same list multiple times.

Bug Fixes

  • Do not inline primitive calls when arguments to the call are mutated in the function body or mutated elsewhere via set!.
  • Modified generated code for (inline) functions to eliminate the possibility of out-of-order execution.
  • Fix a bug where beta expansion of an if expression can lead to compilation errors.

0.9.6 - December 9, 2018

Bug Fixes

  • Cleaned up generated code to ensure calls to primitives from functions that are combined are not executed out of order.
  • Fixed the return_copy macro in the runtime to handle being passed an expression instead of an object.

0.9.5 - November 28, 2018

Features

  • Improve performance of many internal C runtime functions by declaring them static.

0.9.4 - November 25, 2018

Compiler Optimizations

  • Optimize recursive functions by expressing the recursive calls using C iteration. This optimization is more effective when combined with the others listed below as they collectively increase the chances that a higher-level Scheme loop may be compiled down to a single C function. These C functions can then be "called" repeatedly using a while loop which is more efficient at a low level than repeated function calls.
  • Combine lambda functions that are only called for side effects.
  • Improve inlining of primitives that work with immutable objects.
  • Eliminate functions that are only used to define local variables.

Features

  • Added a new feature program to cond-expand that is only defined when compiling a program. This allows, for example, a .scm file to contain a section of code that can be used to run unit tests when the file is compiled as a program. The same file can then be used in production to import code into a library. This is similar to using the __main__ scope in a python program.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent GC segmentation fault on ARM platforms (Raspberry Pi 2).

0.9.3 - October 1, 2018

Features

  • Allow pretty printing of bytevectors.
  • Internal change to the compiler - preserve lambda AST forms throughout compilation process. This should make it easier to implement certain optimizations in future releases.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix input-port?, output-port?, input-port-open?, and output-port-open? to return #f instead of raising an error when a non-port object is passed.
  • Fix overflow detection when performing fixnum multiplication to avoid undefined behavior in the C runtime.
  • Prevent warnings from the C compiler regarding shifting a negative signed value is undefined and absolute value function 'abs' given an argument of type 'long' but has parameter of type 'int'.

0.9.2 - August 26, 2018

Features

  • During CPS optimization allow inlining of operations on global variables that are mutated in other top-level functions.
  • Improved loop detection during CPS optimization phase.
  • Allow optimizing-out of basic if expressions of the form (if (pred? ...) #t #f) into (pred? ...).
  • Perform slightly faster type checking for string, vector, and bytevector access functions.

0.9.1 - August 9, 2018

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a nasty bug where, while a mutator is blocked after calling set_thread_blocked, the collector may copy an object the mutator is using from the stack to the heap. In this case we need to ensure the object is not corrupted when it is copied and that we sync the object's fields back up once the mutator is unblocked. Currently this only affects port objects in the runtime. Generally read was affected more than other I/O functions.
  • Fixed a handful of small garbage collection bugs from the previous round of development.

0.9 - July 31, 2018

This release significantly improves garbage collection performance by using lazy sweeping.

0.8.1 - July 2, 2018

Features

  • Improved garbage collector performance for large heaps.
  • Generate faster compiled code for:
    • car, cdr, and most built-in predicates.
    • Calls to list that contain less than five arguments.
    • Calls to map and for-each that only pass a single list.
  • Allow optimization of some simple self-recursive functions.
  • Allow the optimizer to beta expand a wider range of function calls.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where current-jiffy was returning total clock time of the process. Such an approach cannot be used to measure time accurately when more than one thread is executing concurrently.
  • Prevent the possibility of an infinite loop by not beta expanding recursive function calls.

0.8 - May 30, 2018

Features

  • Added support for complex numbers.
  • When printing intermediate forms during debugging via -t Cyclone will now emit less verbose S-expressions for code in CPS form. To support this effort and make debugging easier, added helper functions ast:ast->sexp, ast:sexp->ast, and ast:ast->pp-sexp to (scheme cyclone ast).
  • Avoid inlining function calls into named let loops to improve performance of compiled code.

0.7.3 - May 7, 2018

Features

  • Made several performance improvements to SRFI 69 hash tables, including:
    • Massively improved lookup performance for symbols.
    • Increased the max bound of hash tables to (2 ^ 30) - 1.
    • Changed hash-by-identity to a high-performance builtin.
  • Added a repl function to (scheme repl) to make it easy to use a REPL from your own code.
  • Added basic support for square and curly brackets in place of parentheses.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an off-by-one error in read-line where the function erroneously reported an extra character was read from stdin. Thanks to wasamasa for the bug report.
  • Fixed a CPS optimization issue where multiple copies of the same lambda are introduced during beta expansion, which causes the optimizer to potentially pick up the wrong value when optimizing-out function calls later on. Thanks to @Chant on Github for providing the report and a test program demonstrating the issue.
  • Updated the parser to recognize mnemonic escapes (EG: \n, \a, etc) and inline hex escapes as part of a symbol.

0.7.2 - February 15, 2018

Features

  • Added a (scheme cyclone match) library based on Alex Shinn's match.scm portable hygienic pattern matcher.
  • The compiler now emits a faster version of apply in cases where only two arguments are received.

Bug Fixes

  • Made several improvements to macro hygiene by renaming local variable bindings during expansion. Added a unit test module covering many test cases.
  • Fixed many functions including utf8->string, string->utf8, bytevector-copy, list->vector, and list->string to heap allocate objects that exceed the maximum size for objects on the stack.
  • Prevent a compiler error when there is only one argument to + or *.

0.7.1 - December 21, 2017

Features

  • Added support for let-syntax and letrec-syntax.
  • Added the (scheme repl) library and interaction-environment function from R7RS.
  • Allow eval to recognize syntax-rules macros.
  • Added single-byte oriented I/O functions read-u8, peek-u8, and write-u8 from R7RS.

Internal Changes

  • Relocated all macro expansion code to the (scheme eval) module. Cyclone's (scheme cyclone macros) library is now obsolete.

Bug Fixes

  • Added the full-unicode feature since Unicode is supported as of the 0.7 release.

0.7 - November 17, 2017

Features

  • Finally added Unicode support using UTF-8!
  • Allow a program to have macros expand into a top-level import expression.
  • Added continuous integration support thanks to Alex Arslan.

Bug Fixes

  • Incorporated a patch from 0-8-15 to pass seconds to thread-sleep! instead of milliseconds. Fractional seconds are accepted as well for high-resolution timers.

0.6.3 - September 16, 2017

Features

  • Allow the compiler to optimize calls to +, -, *, and / that accept more than 2 arguments.
  • Added support for bignums to bitwise-if from SRFI 60.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix read-line to remove trailing carriage return and/or newline characters. Thanks to wasamasa for the bug report!
  • String ports created by open-input-string returned an extra garbage byte. This has been fixed by a patch from wasamasa.
  • Prevent segfaults when allocating large strings using make-string.
  • Added a fix from wasamasa to escape double quotation marks in strings when output via write.
  • wasamasa patched read-string to return EOF when no characters can be read.

0.6.2 - August 25, 2017

Features

  • Made additional speed increases to read.
  • Streamlined type checking to make the remainder function faster.
  • Relocated string-join to (scheme cyclone util) and added a corresponding string-split function.
  • Allow optimization of define-c functions marked as inline even if an alternative non-CPS version of the function is not defined.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent the possibility of segmentation faults when working with large vectors. When a vector is large enough it is allocated directly on the heap, but prior to this fix it was possible that any vector elements on the stack were not moved to the heap during minor GC. This then opens up the possibility of memory corruption when any of those elements are modified, including marking by the runtime's GC.

0.6.1 - August 22, 2017

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed regression: there was the possibility of crashing when calling close-port.

0.6 - August 21, 2017

Features

  • Added a faster version of read.
  • Added SRFI 143 - Fixnums.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent remainder from crashing the runtime due to divide by zero.
  • Avoid printing an unnecessary colon after certain error messages.

0.5.4 - August 3, 2017

Features

  • Allow the -A and -I options to icyc for specifying additional library import directories.
  • Perform constant folding as part of the CPS optimization phase.
  • Statically allocate closures that do not contain any free variables, to avoid unnecessary heap allocations.

Bug Fixes

  • Updated string->number to return #f for all bases when the conversion fails. Previously bases other than ten would return 0 instead.

0.5.3 - June 29, 2017

Features

  • On Arthur Maciel's suggestion, modified Cyclone to always check its system folder for a library if an import is not found. In conjunction with this, the CYCLONE_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable may be set to force Cyclone to look in a specific place other than the system folder for libraries.

  • Decrease minor GC time by only tracing globals when one of them has changed.

  • Added the thread-join! function to (srfi 18).

0.5.2 - June 5, 2017

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug in for-each that was causing length to be executed during each iteration.

0.5.1 - May 24, 2017

The main focus of 0.5.1 is performance but this is also the first release to provide installation instructions for both Windows and Mac.

Features

  • Thanks to Kashyap for adding build instructions for Windows (MSYS) and Mac!

  • Allow define-c function definitions to optionally provide an additional non-CPS form of the function. This form is more efficient and will be used by compiled code whenever possible.

  • Improved the compiler's CPS optimization phase to eliminate more unnecessary function calls.

  • Modified the GC to allow a given number of "huge" allocations to trigger GC. Previously GC was only triggered when smaller heap regions were below a certain percentage of free memory.

  • Compiled code now directly accesses boxed mutable variables instead of using a wrapper function.

  • Added command line options to icyc for evaluating an S-expression from the command line and for running as a script without the Cyclone banner text.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent potential memory corruption when working with large vectors that cannot be allocated on the stack.

0.5 - April 14, 2017

Features

  • Cyclone now has support in the interpreter for loading libraries via import. This is probably the most important change in this release and allows icyc to be used to its full potential.

  • Store parameter objects in such a way that changes to a parameter object do not affect other threads that use the same parameter object.

    The specific requirement from R7RS is:

    parameterize must not change the associated values of any parameters in any thread other than the current thread and threads created inside the parameterize body.

  • Added bignum support to SRFI 60 - integers as bits.

  • Normalize the result of string->number such that bignums are only returned if the result truly is a bignum.

  • Allow Cyclone to find (cyclone) prefixed libraries installed in Cyclone's system folder.

  • Allow a library to export identifiers that are exported by another library. Previously a library could only export identifiers that it defined directly.

  • Raise an error if an unknown identifier is found in a library's export list.

  • Aric Belsito removed a hardcoded call to cyclone from the Makefile when building generate-c. Thanks!

  • Allow cyclone to inline character comparison functions (char=?, etc) when only two arguments are present, for a significant speed improvement.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent exception handlers from being accidentally collected when the collector cooperates on behalf of a mutator.
  • Fixed a regression where string->number returns 0 on bad input instead of #f.

0.4 - March 9, 2017

  • Added a new bignum type to support exact integers of practically unlimited size.
  • As part of the bignum changes, modified the code for exact integer arithmetic to detect overflow.
  • Added documentation for the C API.

0.3.4 - February 10, 2017

Features

  • Koz Ross added implementations of the following SRFI's:

    • SRFI 28 - Basic format strings
    • SRFI 60 - Integers as bits
    • SRFI 121 - Generators

  • Allow a program to have more than one import declaration. A program can now also use cond-expand to selectively expand import declarations.

  • Added the -A and -I compiler options from SRFI 138 to cyclone:

    -A directory

    Append directory to the list of directories that are searched in order to locate imported libraries.

    -I directory

    Prepend directory to the list of directories that are searched in order to locate imported libraries.

  • Added the -CP, -CE, and -CL compiler options to allow passing arbitrary flags to the C compiler:

-CP cc-commands

Specify a custom command line for the C compiler to compile a program module. See Makefile.config for an example of how to construct such a command line.

-CE cc-commands

Specify a custom command line for the C compiler to compile an executable.

-CL cc-commands

Specify a custom command line for the C compiler to compile a library module.

  • Updated the garbage collector to enhance performance for programs with a high allocation rate, and to scale better to multiple concurrent threads.
  • Improved error handling by display and write.
  • Removed the make_int C macro which was deprecated and could cause problems when used in FFI functions.
  • Added a with-handler exception handler form based on the syntax from Bigloo.

Bug Fixes

  • Thanks to Koz Ross, equal? has been updated to check bytevectors for deep equality.
  • Prevent crashes when allocating large bytevectors.
  • Display characters such as #\space correctly when output via write.
  • Thanks to Seth Alves, removed unnecessary include of ck_string.h which is not provided in older versions of libck.

0.3.3 - December 19, 2016

Features:

  • Added SRFI 113 - sets and bags.
  • Improved performance by more aggressively inlining primitives that work with immutable objects, such as the numeric arithmetic and comparison functions.
  • Allow the reader to recognize #true and #false.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent C compilation errors when compiling strings with special characters in them such as #\tab, #\alarm, and #\return.
  • Do not generate invalid C code when compiling + or * without any arguments.
  • Handle compilation of variable-argument anonymous lambdas. For example: ((lambda x x) 3 5).

0.3.2 - November 22, 2016

Features:

  • Recognize escaped vertical line and hex scalar value characters when reading a string.
  • Added current-thread to SRFI 18.
  • Added the include and include-ci macros.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a crash when running cyclone on 32-bit platforms.

0.3.1 - November 20, 2016

Features:

  • Thanks to ecraven, added R7RS function exact-integer-sqrt to (scheme base).
  • Allow the reader to recognize +inf.0, -inf.0, +nan.0, and -nan.0.
  • Allow cond-expand to test for whether a library exists using the form (library {library name}).
  • Added command line option -O to set the optimization level. For now there is -O0 to disable optimizations and the default setting to enable them. Going forward there will be more fine-grained control.
  • Reduce size of compiled code by inlining constant values. This reduced the code size of various cyclone libraries by approximately 33%. Added other inlining as well to slightly improve performance.
  • Increased allocation speed when objects are moved to the heap during a major GC.

Bug Fixes

  • Only throw a divide by zero error for integer division. Floating point divide by zero is allowed and evaluates to nan.
  • Modified SRFI 106 to be smarter about compiling AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL, which are not defined on OpenBSD.
  • Fixed the member functions to always return the list when a value is found, instead of #t.
  • Fixed string->number to return #f if the string cannot be converted.
  • Fixed a bug where the optimizer would sometimes generate incorrect code when a mutating primitive (EG: set-car!) was passed an expression rather than an identifier as the variable argument.
  • Prevent the runtime from crashing when a non-numeric value type is passed to a numeric function.

0.3 - October 22, 2016

Features:

  • Improve performance by inlining numeric arithmetic and comparison operations.

  • Reverted assq, assv, memq, and memv back to primitives for improved performance. In addition the compiler was modified to allow for more efficient compilation of assoc and member.

  • Improved library support to recognize all of the import set forms: only, except, prefix, and rename.

  • Allow explicit renaming macros to be declared interactively. This is the first limited support for calling define-syntax from eval.

  • Added the get-environment-variables function from R7RS.

  • Added support for the following SRFI's:

    • SRFI 106: A basic socket interface
    • SRFI 128: Comparators

Bug Fixes

  • Improved macro hygiene support to properly rename temporary variables in the let-values macro.
  • Improve output of error by using write to output objects as they are represented in memory.
  • Check for duplicate lambda parameters during compilation.
  • Fixed an error that was being raised when calling (random-source-randomize! default-random-source) when using SRFI 27.
  • Raise an error if list->string encounters a list element that is not a character.

0.2 - September 7, 2016

Features:

  • Added the following libraries from R7RS-large red edition (data structures):
    • SRFI 1 list library
    • SRFI 133 vector library
    • SRFI 111 boxes
    • SRFI 117 mutable queues
    • SRFI 132 sorting library
  • Added SRFI 2, and-let*
  • Added parameterize from section 4.2.6 of R7RS to the (scheme base) library.
  • Added let-values and let*-values to (scheme base).
  • Added infinite?, finite?, and nan? to (scheme inexact).
  • Added string ports to (scheme base) - open-input-string, open-output-string, and get-output-string.
  • Added bytevector ports to (scheme base) - get-output-bytevector, open-input-bytevector, and open-output-bytevector.
  • Modified cyclone to also search the current working directory for built-in headers and libraries.

Bug Fixes:

  • Thanks to Mark Meyer, identified and fixed several segfaults in write and display.

  • Updated write to display escaped character sequences (EG: \t) instead of literal characters.

  • Prevent C compilation errors when building a program that only contains basic primitives or a constant at the top level.

  • Fixed the compiler to allow application of a function that can take any number of arguments. For example:

       ((lambda test (write test)) 1 2 3 4)

  • Updated eval to handle functions that take an optional number of arguments.

  • Updated number->string to omit leading zeros for binary conversions.

  • Fixed apply to use the proper semantics when receiving more than one data argument.

  • Changed the assoc and member functions to accept an optional comparison function, and modified both families of functions to be native Scheme functions instead of C primitives.

  • Allow libraries to contain multiple import, begin, and export sections.