GCL 2.6.11 RELEASE NOTES







Greetings! The GCL team is happy to announce the release of version 2.6.11, the latest achievement in the 'stable' (as opposed to 'development') series. Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl for downloading information.

This release features better floating point precision processing, support for cygwin, arm64, ppc64, ppc64le and solaris, more robust SGC, exact vararg initialization, SIGFPE trapping via #'si::break-on-floating-point-exceptions, x86 support for libopcode instruction disassembly via #'si::disassemble-instruction, simplified build dependencies, faster gcd, lcm, typep, coerce, 1+-, predicates, pcl cache, SGC, fast-linking, closure calls and compiled bignums, compilation of top level closure forms by default, memoization of array type handling, support for machines handling long and object returns in different registers, a much smaller cmpinclude.h, prelink support, default Debian compiler flag support (especially stack-guard), new linking and fast-linking diagnostic functions, some selinux support via READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality, and many miscellaneous bug fixes and support for bugs in various external systems.

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