Guile 1.4.1.107 available

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

release notes:

  small touch-ups here and there.

  thi

NEWS excerpt:

  - 1.4.1.107 | 2006-01-28
  
    - bugfixes
  
      - module (ice-9 editing-buffer) transforms all `let' forms correctly
  
        The transforms internal to the `editing-buffer' macro used to
        misidentify (and subsequently wrongly rewrite) a `let' form with
        a null binding list, i.e, `(let () ...)', as a named-let form,
        by using `(not (pair? ...))'.  Now it uses `(symbol? ...)'.
  
      - reading a floating point number can underflow to 0.0
  
        Guile used throw an argument-out-of-range error reading a
        floating point number with a negative exponent less than the
        value of -SCM_MAXEXP.  Now, the result is 0.0.
  
        This change is arguably not a bugfix.  However, the former
        behavior proved problematic for the (now withdrawn, sigh)
        SRFI-56 reference implementation, so that's the basis for this
        NEWS entry's placement.
  
    - availability change for proc: single-active-thread?
  
        This proc, aka `scm_single_thread_p' from C, used to throw a
        "!scm_qtdl" error if `(use-modules (ice-9 threads))' had not yet
        been evaluated, indicating that the quickthreads shared-object
        library was not loaded.  Now, it returns #t in that case.
        (After quickthreads is loaded, it uses the loaded routine as
        usual.)
  
    - docs tweaking
  
      - guile.m4 macro `GUILE_CHECK': "exit convention" explained
  
      - module (ice-9 and-let-star) added to Module Index
  
    - maintenance uses GNU Automake 1.9.6
  
cvs tag:

  v-1-4-1-107-spostarsi

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