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This file contains release note for version 0.96 of Wood.

Changes since 0.95
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The code in "wood:patches;break-loop-patch" is now part of MCL, so it is no 
longer loaded.

Fixes for bugs discovered while porting Apple Dylan to MCL-PPC 3.9.

Mod Histories
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block-io-mcl.lisp
;; 07/20/96 bill databases-locked-p, with-databases-unlocked, & funcall-with-databases-unlocked
;;               are already part of CCL 4.0. Bind *warn-if-redefine*, etc. appropriately.
;; 07/06/96 bill provide block-io-mcl, not block-io.
;; 05/21/96 bill PPC versions of %fread-bytes & %fwrite-bytes now work correctly
;;               if the starting file or buffer position is odd.
;;               They use %copy-ivector-to-ivector instead of local code.

btrees.lisp
;;; 08/27/96 bill  Wrap an eval-when around the definition of *enable-debug-break* as
;;;                suggested by Rainer Joswig.

disk-cache-accessors.lisp
;; 06/14/96 bill AlanR's fix to read-double-float

load-wood.lisp
;; 07/20/96 bill  import databases-locked-p, with-databases-unlocked, funcall-with-databases-unlocked
;;                from CCL.
;;                Don't load break-loop-patch if ccl::databases-locked-p is fbound
;; 07/09/96 bill  AlanR's fix to (setf (logical-pathname-translations "wood") ...)
;;                (pathname-directory ...) -> (or (pathname-directory ...) '(:absolute))

persistent-heap.lisp
;; 05/21/96 bill  new functions p-store-bit-vector & p-load-bit-vector.
;;                Enter them in the $v_bitv slot of *p-store-subtype-functions*
;;                and *p-load-subtype-functions*, respectively.

q.lisp
;; 08/27/96 bill  Added copyright and mod history comments

split-lfun.lisp
;; 05/28/96 bill  %patch-lfun-immediates uses uvsize instead of length on the lfun
;;                split-lfun, join-lfun, & join-lfun-with-dummy-immediates special
;;                case closures and are a little more efficient.