[Chicken-announce] Chicken 4.8.0.4 released

[Jim Ursetto]

Hi all,

Chicken 4.8.0.4 is now available for download:

 http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.8.0/chicken-4.8.0.4.tar.gz

This release primarily fixes a crash on 32-bit OS X builds

(and possibly other systems) caused by a problem with the use

of sigsetjmp.

=== What's new ===

4.8.0.4

- Runtime

  - Ensure correct type is used for sigsetjmp(3) buffer.  This fixes,

    for example, a bus error in 32-bit OS X builds (#1021).

- Core libraries

  - Export file-type from the posix unit.

- Build system

  - Use inexact comparison for flonum tests, as there is sometimes a

    miniscule difference between trig functions computed by libc and

    those precalculated by gcc.

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The 4.8.0.x releases reside on the stability/4.8.0 branch in git,
which you can retrieve with:

git clone --branch stability/4.8.0 git://code.call-cc.org/chicken-core

Or browse my unofficial github mirror:
https://github.com/ursetto/chicken-core-stability/tree/stability/4.8.0

Jim