Francois-Rene Rideau authored Dec 21, 2016 and Attila Lendvai committed Jan 29, 2017

Add support for getting parameters from new SBCL sbcl.mk.
Add support for getting parameters from CLISP makevars.
Add support for getting parameters for ECL and MKCL.

Refactor static linking to use the above.
On SBCL, this relies on the new feature :sb-linkable-runtime
(from 1.3.14-20-g402a8fab6).
On ECL and MKCL, have static-{image,program}-op be pass-through synonyms
for the usual variants.
Remove deceitful incomplete support for static linking on CMUCL.

Add shell test for static linking, to better work with SBCL (uses cl-launch).

Add class c-file for C files to compile, and o-file for precompiled objects.
They can be either dynamically loaded into the current process,
or statically linked into a new runtime.

Upgrade backward compatibility bundle from asdf 3.1.6 to 3.2.0.
Stop manually curating a minimal set of changes,
just adopt a new bundle.lisp wholesale.

Added a groveller based on Dan Knap's and Matthew Backes's cffi-grovel
and Stelian Ionescu's fork iolib-grovel.  cffi-grovel is inspired by
SBCL's groveller.  This is a preliminary version.

Includes a new wrapper generator syntax to simplify the writing of
C glue libraries among other minor features.

- Updated TODO items related to grovelling.
- Integrated documentation into the CFFI manual.
- src/libraries: use ".so" as the default library suffix.

Removed some stuff that's already been implemented, etc...

Reported by Lars Nostdal.

- cffi-ecl fixes:
   - push cffi-features:unix on darwin too.
   - use si:load-foreign-module instead of ffi:load-foreign-library
     on DFFI platforms.
   - use convert-external-name in foreign-symbol-pointer.
- wrap defcvar's define-foreign-symbol around eval-when.
- simplify default-library-suffix
- cffi-tests:
   - load libtest.o on ECL platforms without DFFI.
   - conditionalize the tests with 127 arguments based on the
     value of lambda-parameters-limit.

- Add convert-to-foreign, convert-from-foreign, and
  free-converted-object to the master menu.
- (load-foreign-library): Add note about specifying directories in
  paths.
- (defcfun): Typo in syntax.

- Makefile: new test-scl target. Add SCL's fasl file extensions
  to the clean target.
- Remove SCL TODO item.
- New file: cffi-scl.lisp.
- New primitive type :long-double. Since it's only supported by
  SCL, it's not worth adding a no-long-double feature just yet.
- New tests for :long-double.
- Add information about SCL and the new :long-double type to
  the user manual.

- These functions basically export the functionality of
  translate-type-to-foreign, translate-type-from-foreign and
  free-translated-object.
- TODO: document these.

- Push random-tester.lisp. This was used to generate the BFF tests,
  but is still not automated.
- Update respective TODO item.

- New macros and functions: DEFBITFIELD, FOREIGN-BITFIELD-VALUE,
  FOREIGN-BITFIELD-SYMBOLS.

New option to defcenum in order to be able a base type different
from the default, :int.

- removed known issue about modern mode as it should work now.
- removed note about callbacks being linux/x86 only.
- fixed typo: supported -> unsupported.
- remove note about [u]int{8,16,32,64} not being implemented.
- add documentation about uint, uchar, ulong, ullong.
- fix foreign-alloc's function signature.
- update info regarding lispworks's new foreign-funcall.
- add example for *darwin-framework-directories*.
- fixed define-foreign-library's syntax.
- comment out sentence about use-foreign-library setting the current
  foreign library as it doesn't do that yet.
- remove the (setf (callback ...)) example. this isn't allowed anymore.
- rename foreign-funcall and long-long to no-foreign-funcall and
  no-long-long.
- long-long is a standard C99 type, remove mention of GNU there.

- removed TODO item: there's already a tutorial.
- added TODO item: document defcfun's new capabilities

- Underspecifed Semantics: doubles/floats
- Known Issues: cffi-tests.asd's bogus :c-test-lib

- Defined the :[u]int{8,16,32,64} types by looking at the sizes of
  the built-in types.
- Removed :[u]int{8,16,32,64} from cffi-clisp.
- New typedefs: :uchar, :ushort, :uint, :ulong, :llong, and :ullong.
- New test: misc-types.sized-ints.
- Removed the related TODO items.

- Add UNPARSE generic function for unparsing types.
- Reverse the order of the type name and class in translator GFs.
- Add NEXT-* versions of the translator GFs.

- New functions: FOREIGN-SLOT-NAMES and FOREIGN-SLOT-OFFSET.
- Test FOREIGN-SLOT-NAMES: STRUCT.NAMES
- Removed respective TODO item and added a new one: document these.

- New file: TODO. 46 items!
- Removed the outdated paragraph about implementation support from
  the README file.