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NEWS

@@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ occur during read or write.
 Command line history length is now controlled by the readline option
 `history-length'.  Default is 200 lines.
 
+* Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
+
+** The range of logand, logior, logxor, logtest, and logbit? have changed.
+
+These functions now operate on numbers in the range of a C unsigned
+long.
+
+These functions used to operate on numbers in the range of a C signed
+long; however, this seems inappropriate, because Guile integers don't
+overflow.
+
 ** All builtins now print as primitives.
 Previously builtin procedures not belonging to the fundamental subr
 types printed as #<compiled closure #<primitive-procedure gsubr-apply>>.

THANKS

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Bug reports and fixes from:
 
      Etienne Bernard
         Brad Bowman
+         Jay Glascoe
 	 Ian Grant
+     Charbel Jacquin
    Christian Lynbech
         Russ McManus
      Nicolas Neuss
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ Bug reports and fixes from:
      Richard Polton
      Telford Tendys
      Bernard Urban
+         Jim Wilson
 
 Also, thanks to:
 - Craig Brozefsky, for his work on the Guile mailing list web archives

libguile/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+1998-11-23  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
+
+	* numbers.c (scm_logand, scm_logior, scm_logxor, scm_logtest,
+ 	scm_logbit_p): Do the computation in ulongs.  This is not as nice
+ 	as doing it in bignums, but at least it's good enough for
+	manipulating flags in 32-bit words.  (Thanks to Jim Wilson.)
+	
+	* regex-posix.c (scm_regexp_exec): Reliably mark unmatched
+	subexpressions.  (Thanks to Charbel Jacquin.)
+
 1998-11-23  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 
 	* feature.c, feature.h (scm_make_hook, scm_add_hook_x,
@@ -181,11 +191,11 @@
 
 1998-11-01  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 
-	* read.c, read.h (history-length, history-file): New read options.
+	* read.c, read.h (scm_read_opts): New read options
+	"history-length" and "history-file".
 	(scm_read_options): Stifle history to history length.
 
-	* readline.c (scm_read_history, scm_write_history): New
-	procedures.
+	* readline.c (scm_read_history, scm_write_history): New procedures.
 
 1998-10-31  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 
@@ -217,8 +227,7 @@
 	scm_macro_name, scm_macro_transformer): Moved from eval.c
 	(scm_make_synt): Moved from eval.c
 
-	* procs.c, procs.h (scm_procedure_documentation): Moved from
-	eval.c.
+	* procs.c, procs.h (scm_procedure_documentation): Moved from eval.c.
 
 	* init.c (scm_boot_guile_1): Added calls to scm_init_macros and
 	scm_init_evalext.