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@ -10,6 +10,57 @@ prerelease, and a full NEWS corresponding to 1.8 -> 2.0.)
Changes in 1.9.8 (since the 1.9.7 prerelease):
** Struct optimizations
Structs underly many types in Guile, including records and objects. This
release speeds up struct access and creation.
** Add libffi dependency
Libffi is now required, to build the foreign function interface. See
http://sourceware.org/libffi/, for more information on libffi.
We are not aware of a platform that Guile runs on for which libffi is
unavailable.
** Foreign function interface
dynamic-link / dynamic-func still get the syms; we just added a libffi
interface to call functions. integer, floating point, pointer, and
struct types supported. simple finalization interface; complicated users
to use guardians. (system foreign); high-level wrapper needed. vm
integration. bytevector integration.
** Incompatible changes to the foreign value interface introduced in 1.9.7
C extensions need recompilation
** dynamic-wind compilation
inline body thunk; wind/unwind via VM; add to tree-il
** vlists
vlists and vhashes. used internally. composed of awesome.
** getaddrinfo
* libguile/net_db.c (sym_getaddrinfo_error, sym_ai_passive,
sym_ai_canonname, sym_ai_numerichost, sym_ai_numericserv,
sym_ai_v4mapped, sym_ai_all, sym_ai_addrconfig, sym_eai_badflags,
sym_eai_noname, sym_eai_again, sym_eai_fail, sym_eai_family,
sym_eai_socktype, sym_eai_service, sym_eai_memory, sym_eai_system,
sym_eai_overflow, sym_eai_nodata, sym_eai_addrfamily,
sym_eai_inprogress, sym_eai_canceled, sym_eai_notcanceled,
sym_eai_alldone, sym_eai_intr, sym_eai_idn_encode): New variables.
(scm_from_addrinfo, scm_getaddrinfo, scm_gai_strerror): New functions.
* module/ice-9/networking.scm (addrinfo:flags, addrinfo:fam,
addrinfo:socktype, addrinfo:protocol, addrinfo:addr,
addrinfo:canonname): New procedures.
** tutorial deleted
** And of course, the usual collection of bugfixes
Interested users should see the ChangeLog for more information.