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This message announces the availability of Scheme release scm-5f4.

SCM conforms to Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
and the IEEE P1178 specification.  SCM is written in C and runs under
Amiga, Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, Unicos, VMS, Windows,
Unix, and similar systems.

SCM is free software and part of the GNU project.  It is released
under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from
SCM's home page:

	       <http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SCM>

Links to distributions of SCM and related softwares are at the end of
this message.

				-=-=-
scm-5f4 news:

scm-5f4 releases Radey Shouman's vicinity extension and fixes
compiler-dependent arithmetic problems.  Details at
<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/scm/scm/ChangeLog>

2023-10-16  Aubrey Jaffer  <agj@alum.mit.edu>
	* subr.c (scm_big_and): Patch from Radey to fix
	 (logior 0 (ash -1 64)) => 0 on 64 bit hardware.
2023-10-14  Aubrey Jaffer  <agj@alum.mit.edu>
	* mkimpcat.scm:  Aubrey Jaffer  <agj@alum.mit.edu>
	Patch from Radey Shouman to use SLIB's new catalog:expand-path.
2023-08-15  shouman  <shouman@jaffer-Vivobook-ASUSLaptop-X1703ZA-K1703ZA>
	* debug.c:
	Summary: Fix recent breakage in printing #@lambda expressions.
	* debug.c, eval.c, repl.c, scm.h, sys.c:
	Use IFLAGs for environment markers instead of
	integers, to simplify debugging.  Bash egc roots that are collected during main heap gc,
	so we don't keep pointers to free cells.
2023-08-04  Radey  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* build.scm (gnu-win32 platform): For compile-dll-c-files and make-archive change "dllwrap"
	call to "gcc -shared", dllwrap is deprecated.  For link-c-program add linker directives to produce
	.def and .lib files.  scm.lib is required for linking dlls.
	* scmfig.h: #define HAVE_DYNL if SCM_WIN_DLL is #defined, so init_dynl is called.
2023-08-04  Radey Shouman  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* scl.c (scm_intexpt): Fix overflow detection so that it works
	without -fwrapv and with optimization.  Uses a similar strategy to
	that used for fixnum product.
2023-08-04  Radey Shouman  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* r4rstest.scm (test-bignum): Added some tests of EXPT requiring bignums.
2023-07-28  Radey  Shouman <shouman@comcast.net>
	* r4rstest.scm (test-bignum): Add test for bignum ash of -1.
2023-07-28  Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net>
	* subr.c (scm_big_ash): Fix bug when first argument is 0 or -1 and
	shift is a multiple of bigdig bits.  Gave unpredictable results
	due to internal array bounds error.
2023-07-24  Radey Shouman  <rshouman@pmdlinux>
	* scm.h (SCM_DLL_EXPORT, SCM_EXPORT): Changed for win32 so
	that build with dynamic loading works.
	* repl.c (input_waiting): For win32 fix so that this works
	for an input pipe.
	* scm.c (init_buf0):  For win32 make stdin unbuffered if
	an input pipe because it is when running in an emacs buffer.
2023-07-21  Radey Shouman  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* r4rstest.scm: Add a few more bignum arithmetic tests.  Beautify
	output of some float r/w tests by not printing closure.
	* scl.c (product): Fix fixnum*fixnum case.  The result of an
	overflowing signed product in C is implementation dependent, and
	gcc uses this freedom to optimize out a check.  Fixed by either
	using unsigned product or by using new SCM_LLONG optional type
	macro.
	* sys.c (scm_maksubr, scm_make_cont): Improve clarity.
	* scmfig.h: Add conditional #defines for SCM_LLONG, a signed type
	wide enough to hold the product of scm_int*scm_int.  Defined for
	x86_64 and x86_32.  Defining this will enable better performance
	for product subr.
	* scm.h: Added typedefs scm_int and scm_uint, currently these
	are always long and unsigned long, but that would change for
	a 64-bit windows port.
2023-07-16  Radey Shouman  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* rgx.c (lregcomp):  Replace calls to scm_protect_temp with
	volatile SCM array on stack.
	* unif.c (make_sh_array): Replace calls to scm_protect_temp with
	volatile SCM array on stack.
	* ramap.c (ramapc, ramap, rafe, scm_array_index_for_each, array_imap):
	Replace calls to scm_protect_temp with volatile SCM array on stack.
	* posix.c (getgroups):  Replace calls to scm_protect_temp with
	volatile SCM array on stack.
	* eval.c (map, for_each):  Replace calls to scm_protect_temp with
	volatile SCM array on stack.
	* subr.c (divbigbig): Use volatile SCM array on stack for gc
	protection.  Float test now passes with -O3.
	* scl.c (big2str, istr2flo, pmantexp2dbl): Add gc protection for
	temporary SCM cells using volatile SCM array on stack.  Remove
	calls to scm_protect_temp*.
2023-07-15  Radey Shouman  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* sys.c (scm_egc): Use s_numheaps instead of literal string.
2023-07-13  Aubrey Jaffer  <agj@alum.mit.edu>
	* keysymdef.scm, x11.scm: Updated.
	* Makefile (*.opt): Removed Makefile dependency so that
	user's customization persists.
2023-07-12  Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net>
	* ramap.c (scm_array_index_for_each): use scm_protect_temp2 instead
	of scm_protect_temp twice.
	* scl.c (istr2flo): GC protect locals manstr and second.
	* subr.c (divbigbig): GC protect locals quocell and dencell.
	* sys.c, scm.h: Add scm_protect_temp2, to simplify GC protection
	of two local variables.  Procedure does literally nothing, but calling
	it should make it harder to optimize SCM locals away.
2023-07-09  Radey Shouman  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* Make all .opt files depend on Makefile, so they do not need
	to be deleted after editing Makefile.
2023-06-30  Aubrey Jaffer  <agj@alum.mit.edu>
	* Makefile ($(distdir)scm-$(VERSION)-$(RELEASE).exe): Added HTML
	documentation dependencies.
	* scm.nsi: Commented out test for SLIB.
2023-06-30  Aubrey Jaffer  <agj@alum.mit.edu>
	* Makefile ($(distdir)scm-$(VERSION)-$(RELEASE).exe): Added HTML
	documentation dependencies.
	* scm.nsi: Commented out test for SLIB.
2023-06-26  Aubrey Jaffer  <agj@alum.mit.edu>
	* r4rstest.scm (test-bignum): Added multiplication test for GCC
	-O1 optimizer bug.
2021-09-01  Aubrey Jaffer  <agj@alum.mit.edu>
	* scl.c (istr2flo): Corrected case #ifndef SINGLES.
	* unif.c (cvref): Corrected case #ifndef SINGLES.
2022-04-28  Radey  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* repl.c (scm_iprin1): When writing a string, reproduce all
	escaped characters accepted as input: \0, \f, \n, \r, \t, \a,
	\v, \" & \\.  For _WIN32, #define strcasecmp as stricmp.
2022-04-27  Radey  <shouman@comcast.net>
	* socket.c (l_servinfo): Fix case of first argument an integer.
	Add some casts to avert warnings.

				-=-=-

SCM source is available from:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4.zip>
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4-1.src.rpm>
Also available as binary RPM:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4-1.x86_64.rpm>
Also available as MS-Windows installer (older version):
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4-1.exe>

SLIB is a portable Scheme library which SCM uses:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c1.zip>
Also available as RPM:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c1-1.src.rpm>
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c1-1.noarch.rpm>
Also available as MS-Windows installer:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c1-1.exe>

JACAL is a symbolic math system written in Scheme:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c8.zip>
Also available as RPM:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c8-1.src.rpm>
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c8-1.noarch.rpm>
Also available as MS-Windows installer:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c8-1.exe>

WB is a disk based, sorted associative array (B-tree) library for SCM.
Using WB, large databases can be created and managed from SCM.
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4.zip>
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4-1.src.rpm>
Also available as binary RPM:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4-1.x86_64.rpm>

FreeSnell is a program to compute optical properties of multilayer
thin-film coatings:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1c4.zip>
Also available as MS-Windows installer:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1c4-1.exe>

SIMSYNCH is a digital logic simulation system written in SCM.
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/synch-1c5.zip>

XSCM is a X windows interface package which works with SCM:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/xscm-2.01.tar.gz>

TURTLSCM is a turtle graphics package which works with SCM on MS-DOS
or X11 machines:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/turtlegr.tar.gz>

#! implements "#!" (POSIX) shell-scripts for MS-DOS batch files.
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/sharpbang.zip>
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/#!.zip>

SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor):
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz>

MacSCM is a Macintosh applications building package which works with
SCM (similar to XSCM).
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/macscm.tar.Z>

Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SCM
has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from:
 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo>