Creating private branch of sml/branches/primop-branch-3 for experimental Translate rewrite

merge from trunk into primop-branch-3 (2650:2741)

merge (2579:2594) from svn://smlnj-gforge.cs.uchicago.edu/smlnj/sml/trunk (CM changes)

merge -r 2492:2578 from sml/trunk

merged revisions 2221:2410 of sml/trunk into base

create primop branch 3 as future target to merge changes from primop branch 2

eliminated src dir

moved various files into NOTES subdirectory

ml-flex -> lexgen

sources for ml-flex added; integration partially done

improved the way certain libraries are bound into the compiler

added comment

improved Controls interface; minor changes and bug fixes in CM

CM support for lazy sml and per-file control settings

NLFFI-related code tweaks

a lot of Basis hacking, among other things adding slices

moved Controls module into its own library;
changed Controls interface to make it saner;
made MLRISC independent of Controls;
minor changes to CM

implemented better, simpler PID allocation scheme;
binfile format has changed, version number is 110.39.2; NEW BOOTFILES

implemented generic Controls module and used it for
all compiler flags/tuneable knobs/...;
more command-line options accepted (for setting the above controls);
some minor bug fixes

fix problem with CM noweb tool;
reworked FFI: enum types;
              the (non-)distinction between incomplete and complete types

a mix of changes to CM and FFI

Release 110.37 -- see HISTORY

made ml-nlffigen handle varargs functions with a bit more grace;
some minor internal improvements to CM

merging changes from devel branch and fixing up some earlier mistakes
(see HISTORY)

dir tool added

merging changes from private branch

further improvements to link traversals and (as a result) autoloading;
See HISTORY for how to bootstrap!

more CM tool tweaks; no HISTORY entry for this one

merging recent changes related to autoloading and tool plugins

even better BTrace;
modifications to how the yacc tool handles options

merging latest improvements (CM, BTrace)

merge CM and BTrace changes

merging back my devel changes (anchor environments)

bring revisions from the vendor branch to the trunk

merging changes from devel branch; see HISTORY

merged my path anchor changes into main trunk
more config/srcarchiveurl! YOU NEED NEW BINFILES more config/srcarchiveurl!
Read HISTORY and src/system/README!

CM.sources implemented; CM.makedepend dropped

merged changes from devel branch (added noweb tool)

merged pending changes into main trunk; see HISTORY; new binfiles!!

added .fun as a file name suffix known to CM

merging last bits before 110.27 code freeze

changes to modmap generator and CM tool parameter mechanism (see HISTORY)

merging back development branch blume_devel_v110p26p1_3...
This involves changes to CM and the removal of CMStaticEnv from
the compiler.  See the HISTORY file for more information.

merging back blume_devel_v110p26p1_1

merging back changes from blume_devel_v110_26_2

using pathconfig for tool command names

added some copyright notices

tool plugins implemented

Tools cleaned up

small change to SafeIO; cosmetic fix of master-slave interrupt handling; doc

symval added; getterSetter changed to { get, set }

cm-tools.cm added

just syncing; this version does not work

a host of changes related mostly to pathname handling

various changes in pathname handling etc.

error flag in source cancelled; IO vs. interrupts handled more robustly

PathConfig implemented

stabilization code working but only flimsily hooked up

stdtool as function; better depend. graphs, group export grammar fixed

early beginning of dep. analysis

stdtool; yacc/lex/burg tools; some odd fixes here and there

skeleton stuff added (works); error messages improved; SML export analysis

stage0 -- links fine (for testing); parses correctly (apparently)

implementation of Tools mechanism added

semant/members.sml should be fairly complete now