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S M L / N J
1 1 0 . 4 3 N E W S
September 9, 2003
WARNING
This working version is believed to be stable, but
we have not run our full regression-test suite.
<a href="http://www.smlnj.org/index.html">http://www.smlnj.org/index.html</a>
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<h2>Summary:</h2>
In addition to a number of important bugfixes, this working version
brings us a big step closer to a new full release: the win32 port works
again (but requires extensive testing!), <tt>IntInf.int</tt> has been put into
the Basis (with compiler support), and many Basis interfaces have
been updated or added in accordance with the Basis spec.
<hr>
<h2>Details:</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Basis:
<dd>
<ul>
<li><tt>IntInf</tt> implemented; <tt>LargeInt</tt> = <tt>IntInf</tt>; <tt>FixedInt</tt> = <tt>Int32</tt></li>
<li>added some missing <tt>Real64</tt> operations (in particular, <tt>Real.toLargeInt</tt>)</li>
<li>a lot of work went into bringing the Basis closer to the spec:
missing functions added, types adjusted, *<tt>Slice</tt> modules
written and added</li>
<li>new implementation of structure <tt>Time</tt> based on <tt>IntInf</tt></li>
<li>major overhaul of code in structure <tt>Date</tt>; added missing functionality</li>
<li>various bug fixes</li>
<li>a lot of cleanup work</li>
</ul>
<dt>installer:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>large parts of installer script written in ML for portability</li>
<li>new installer script for win32 (uses above ML code)</li>
<li>new installer script for *nix that uses the above ML code</li>
<li>new target "mlrisc" (MLRISC modules that don't get compiled
into the SML/NJ compiler but are useful for other projects
such as Moby)</li>
</ul>
<dt>runtime:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>compiles and works under Win32 again</li>
</ul>
<dt>CM:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>no longer gets confused by files that "change their identity"
(e.g., by getting unlinked and recreated by a text editor)</li>
<li>parse-errors in init group (bootstrap compiler) no longer get
swallowed</li>
</ul>
<dt>Compiler:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>compiler support for <tt>IntInf.int</tt></li>
<li>exported structure <tt>Typecheck</tt> from <tt>$smlnj/viscomp/core.cm</tt></li>
<li>added casse for IF, WHILE, ANDALSO, ORELSE to Absyn; improves
error messages and simplifies translation<li>
<li>flag added for treating non-exhaustive bindings as errors</li>
<li>improved organization of structure <tt>InlineT</tt></li>
<li>important bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<dt>interactive system:
<dd>
<ul>
<li><tt>Control.Print.intinfDepth</tt> control max length of intinf constants</li>
</ul>
<dt>global:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>source tree "cleaned" so that <tt>CMB.make</tt> goes through without any
warning other than polyequal warnings; (not quite true for
win32 version which still needs some more cleaning)</li>
<li>many unnecessary calls of polyequal removed</li>
<li>started using <tt>IntInf.int</tt> literals where appropriate</li>
</ul>
<dt>ml-nlffigen:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>exports structures <tt>ST_</tt>* corresponding to incomplete types</li>
</ul>
<dt>CML:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>compiles under Win32 again</li>
</ul>
<dt>eXene:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>now also compiles under Win32 -- but is untested;
(it is still an X toolkit, so you need to be able to
connect to an X server to test it)</li>
</ul>
<dt>nowhere:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>compiles under Win32</li>
</ul>
<dt>ckit:
<dd>
<ul>
<li>mismatched uses of <tt>LargeInt</tt> vs. <tt>Int32</tt> fixed</li>
</ul>
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