Changes introduced in version 3.8.7

Version 3.8.7 is mainly a bugfix release. New features:

• Support for MacOS X 10.x. This includes support for Tcl/Tk (see Tcl/Tk Notes).
• Made the Windows version faster using an improved version of the tweaks used in 3.8.3.

Bugs fixed:

• Performance problems in meta-calls, exception handling, findall/3 and friends, sort/2, keysort/2.
• atom_codes/2, atom_chars/2, number_codes/2, and number_chars/2 were not steadfast.
• library(timeout): Some timeouts were ignored if they occurred during exception handling.
• library(timeout): If the timer cannot be set up (using setitimer), then a system error exception is raised. This happens on Solaris in multi-threaded applications, e.g. when using SICStus with Java.
• SP_deinitialize() not working properly.
• Infinite loop in dynamic code memory management.
• Arguments to format spec ~@ were not called as fully general goals.
• Loading and unloading resources was vulnerable to changing file search paths.
• listing/[0,1] did not module prefix bodies of imported predicates correctly.
• library(clpfd): some Boolean constraints were incorrectly macro-expanded; some type errors merely failed; over-zealous integer overflow detection in arithmetic.
• sockets:socket_select/[5,6] will work correctly also for input buffered socket streams. You no longer need to disable buffering with sockets:socket_buffering/4 just to get sockets:socket_select/[5,6] to work.
• library(sockets): A signal delivered to the process will no longer cause any socket predicates to give an error (proper EINTR handling). A downside to this is that SICStus no longer is interruptible with ^C (SIGINT) while blocking except in sockets:socket_select/[5,6]. In the case of sockets:socket_select/[5,6], signal delivery will be treated as if the select() call had a zero timeout. Such spurious timeouts are a potential backward compatibility issue.
• sockets:socket_buffering/4: A crashing bug introduced in 3.8.6. Added argument validation so that it now fails on non-socket streams and other incorrect arguments. Note that the primary reason for changing socket buffering prior to 3.8.7 is gone since sockets:socket_select/[5,6] now work also for input buffered sockets.
• system:file_property/2 failed to recognize symbolic links as such.
• Jasper: A Prolog side memory leak in SPTerm.consFunctor. This also affected all read-from-string type methods.
• Jasper: SPTerm.getNumberChars called an undefined native method.
• Under UNIX, the Prolog run-time would temporarily unblock all OS signals. This could lead to unexpected behavior when linking SICStus with other applications that use signals (such as Java).
• library('clpqr/examples/mip') would not load properly.
• Solaris, spld --static used incorrect options when specifying static linking to Sun Workshop C-compiler.