sbcl-1.1.16 released

Dear all,

I have over the course of my day found spare time, power and
connectivity between journey stages to release sbcl 1.1.16.  As well as
the change notes, appended to this message, I should say that the build
failure on sparc and mips from the new register allocator is not, to my
knowledge, fixed; partial progress has been made this month towards
addressing the issue, but we're still a little way from a full
understanding.

Also, I have attempted to build the x86-64/linux binary that I've
uploaded in a way that will allow it to run on systems with glibc
versions earlier than 2.14.  I'd appreciate a success (or failure)
report if anyone can spare the time.

Best wishes,

Christophe

changes in sbcl-1.1.16 relative to sbcl-1.1.15:
  * minor incompatible change: improve read/print consistency for pathnames on
    Win32, by using the circumflex character #\^ as the escape character.
    (lp#673625)
  * enhancement: SB-EXT:DEFINE-LOAD-TIME-GLOBAL. (lp#1253688)
  * enhancement: Loading fasls with symbols from an undefined package includes
    the name of the symbol in the error message.
  * bug fix: problems when redefining classes and doing TYPEP on classes
    concurrently. (lp#1272742)
  * bug fixes to the x86-64 XCHG instruction:
    ** it was misencoded when used with RAX, R8-R15 registers. (reported by
       Eric Marsden)
    ** it was misencoded when used to exchange EAX with itself.
    ** the disassembler wrongly printed XCHG RAX, R8 and the corresponding
       32- and 16-bit variations as NOP.
  * bug fix: the disassembler outputs source annotations in the right place
    and no longer randomly drops some of them. (lp#1249205)
  * bug fix: fix commutative-arg-swap from introducing undumpable structures
    into code, prevent code with errors from being compiled. (lp#1276282)
  * bug fix: pathnames with :back in their directory component are succeffully
    resolved.
  * bug fix: the deterministic profiler now uses ENCAPSULATE functionality to
    wrap functions around. (lp#309086)


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