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-revision 1387, Mon Sep 22 17:10:40 2003 UTC
+revision 1500, Fri May 28 21:44:42 2004 UTC
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  Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/28 16:45:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040528-basis
+ Description:
+ Added signature PACK_REAL and exported functor PrimIO.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/25 16:00:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040525-group-owner
+ Description:
+ CM now ignores (but still accepts) the "owner" information in group
+ descriptions.  The owner of a group is its next enclosing
+ library. Each group must have a unique owner.  (There is a virtual
+ "toplevel" library that own groups which are not nested within a real
+ library.)  Previously, each group had to explicitly declare its owner,
+ and CM would check that such a declaration is correct.  The new scheme
+ is to have CM check that for each group there is precisely one owning
+ library.
+ The advantage of the new scheme is that the programmer no longer needs
+ to maintain the somewhat annoying owner information.  The downside is
+ that CM cannot enforce the ownership rule across multiple runs of
+ CM.make.  Fortunately, enclosing the same group in two different
+ libraries A and B which are not part of the same program does not
+ cause real problems.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/20 16:00:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040520-win32
+ Description:
+ Made the win32 version work again.  (Strangely, a misplaced comma had
+ slipped into win32-process.c which prevented the runtime from being
+ compiled correctly.)
+ Also, included a minor addition to ml-build.bat analogous to what was
+ done in blume-20040519-ml-build.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/19 22:10:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040519-ml-build
+ Description:
+ Arranged for ml-build to clean up after itself a little bit better.
+ The script generates a temporary SML source file and compiles it using
+ CM, so CM generates metadata (GUID, SKEL, objectfile) for it.  It now
+ gets rid of those at the end, so they don't accumulate under .cm.
+ This required a minor change to install.sh because the name of the
+ metadata directory (default: .cm) is actually configurable at
+ installation time.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/18 15:50:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040518-mkreader
+ Description:
+ Added Posix.IO.mk{Bin,Text}{Reader,Writer} by lifting their respective
+ implementations from internal modules PosixBinPrimIO and PosixTextPrimIO.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/11 14:35:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040511-win32sock
+ Description:
+ Added previously missing support for many socket-related functions
+ under win32.  Thanks to David Hansel <hansel@reactive-systems.com>
+ for the voluminous patch!
+ (I have not tested this patch under win32 yet.)
+ Here is David's e-mail:
+ Hi,
+ Attached to this email you find a diff against sml/nj 110.45
+ that will enable socket support under Windows.
+ To apply the patch (using unix or cygwin)
+) gunzip runtime.diff.gz
+) "cd" into "src/runtime" in the source tree of a fresh
+.45 installation.
+) patch -p 1 < [your/path/to]runtime.diff
+ The code compiles fine but has NOT yet been extensively tested.
+ I only ran a few tests for basic socket client functionality
+ (which worked fine).  Especially the functions that use ioctl
+ are not tested at all and might not work (see below).
+ I implemented this since we want to move to a newer version of sml/nj
+ but need socket support in order to use it.  This is the first time I
+ even had a look at the sml/nj source,  so please review my changes
+ before making this part of the distribution!  Here are a few issues
+ that I think might be better for someone to solve who is more
+ familiar with the sml/nj source (and socket programming):
+ - getnetbyaddr.c and getnetbyname.c will raise a "not implemented"
+   exception since I could not figure out what the windows equivalent
+   of these functions is
+ - In sockets-osdep.h there are a some #include statements that are
+   only used in a few files that include sockets-osdep.h
+ - In smlnj-sock-lib.c, function init_fn() calls WSAStartup() but
+   does not process its return value since I don't know how to
+   report an error upwards.
+ - It would probably be good to have a call to WSACleanup() when
+   the library is unloaded (if there is such a possibility).
+   Otherwise I think Windows will take care of this automatically
+   when the process finishes.
+ - I used ioctlsocket() as a replacement for ioctl() but I have
+   no idea if that is actually the proper replacement on Windows.
+ - All these issues are marked in the code by "FIXME" comments.
+ We use sml/nj extensively in our products and are quite happy
+ with it.  I hope this contribution will help you.
+ Keep up the good work!
+ David
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/11 14:20:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040511-installml
+ Description:
+ Fixed two bugs in installml script.  (Thanks to Vesa A. Norrman for
+ the patch.)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/11 14:05:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040511-nlffi-netbsd
+ Description:
+ Added support for nlffi under netbsd.  (Thanks to Vesa A. Norrman for
+ the patch.)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/11 12:05:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040511-exports
+ Description:
+ As per request by Adam Chlipala <adam@hcoop.net>, extended various
+ export lists in compiler-related .cm-files.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/05/11 11:35:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040511-allsource
+ Description:
+ The installer now honors the "src-smlnj" target again, although its meaning
+ has changed from "all sources required for the compiler" to "all sources
+ the installer knows about".  In other words, if you enable "src-smlnj"
+ in the "targets" file, then the installer will pull in sources for
+ everything.  (Notice that this refers to source code only.  Compiled
+ code is still only installed for modules that were requested explicitly
+ or which are required for other modules that were requested explicitly.)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/04/23 17:40:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040423-ieee-scan
+ Description:
+ Fixed IEEEReal.scan (and .fromString) so that if there is an overflow
+ in the exponent calculation we get INF or ZERO (depending on the mantissa
+ and the sign of the exponent).
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/04/23 10:40:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040423-ml-build
+ Description:
+ The ml-build script now terminates with a non-0 status when something
+ goes wrong.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/04/22 16:35:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20040422-Option
+ Description:
+ Made exception Option to be the same as exception Option.Option
+ (as it should be).
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Allen Leung (leunga (at) reservoir (dot) com)
+ Date: 2004/03/19 14:40:00 EST
+ Tag: leunga-20040319-cygwin-nlffi
+ Description:
+ Fixed the runtime so that ml-nlffi-lib runs on the cygwin version
+ of SML/NJ.  The problem is that
+    lib = dlopen(NULL, ...)
+    f   = dlsym(lib, "malloc");
+ does not work on Windows unless we explicitly export symbols
+ such as 'malloc' during linking.  We fixed this by explicitly
+ exporting the required symbols with the magic gcc incantation:
+     -Wl,--export-all cygwin.def
+ where cygwin.def is a file containing all the symbols that
+ we wish to export.
+ I suspect this is a Windows problem and we'll have to
+ do the same (somehow with windows compilers) when
+ we build the native win32 version with the system
+ calls LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/03/04 16:35:00 CST
+ Tag: blume-20040304-intinf-fmt
+ Description:
+ Fixed problem with IntInf.fmt (sign would show up on the right instead
+ of on the left for BIN, OCT, and HEX).
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/03/04 11:25:00 CST
+ Tag: blume-20040304-symlinks
+ Description:
+ Fixed problem with installer script (unix only) where bin/ml-yacc and
+ friends pointed (via symlinks) to absolute locations instead of just
+ .run-sml.  This was reported by Vesa A Norrman.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/02/13 14:50:00 CST
+ Tag: Release_110_45
+ Description:
+ New working version (110.45). New bootfiles.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/01/26 15:15:15 CST
+ Tag: blume-20040126-toplevel
+ Description:
+ Improved handling of exceptions at the interactive toplevel.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2004/01/26 11:25:00
+ Tag: blume-20040126-app
+ Description:
+ Type of top-level "app" corrected.
+ Added code for setting vp_limitPtrMask to Win32-specific runtime.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/11/18 17:10 CST
+ Tag: blume-20031118-basis-fiddle
+ Description:
+ - changed Timer interface to what might become the spec
+ - POSIX_FLAGS -> BIT_FLAGS according to spec
+ - some other minor discrepancies wrt. spec eliminated
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/11/06 12:00:00 CST
+ Tag: Release_110_44
+ Description:
+ New working version (110.44). New bootfiles.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/11/04 11:50:00 CST
+ Tag: blume-20031104-move-libraries
+ Description:
+ Eliminated the "dont_move_libraries" directive in config/targets.
+ (The mechanism was broken and could not be fixed easily.  Moreover,
+ there does not seem to be any reason not to move all libraries into
+ lib during installation.  I originally implemented this directive as a
+ backward-compatibility feature when I first introduced the new CM.
+ Now that things have been stable for a long time and going back to the
+ old CM is not an option, there is no reason to keep it around.)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/11/03 16:00:00 CST
+ Tag: blume-20031103-installdir
+ Description:
+ Made installer honor INSTALLDIR variable again.  (Thanks to Chris
+ Richards for pointing out the problem and providing the solution.)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/10/01 17:05:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20031001-lal-mlrisc
+ Description:
+ MLRISC bug fix from Lal.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/09/30 16:10:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20030930-primio-bat
+ Description:
+. Added openVector, nullRd, and nullWr to PRIM_IO.
+. Improved .bat files (for Win32 port) to make things work under Win95.
+    (thanks to Aaron S. Hawley for this one)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/09/26 16:05:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20030926-wrappriv
+ Description:
+ Added missing wrapper for privilege "primitive" in $smlnj/viscomp/core.cm.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/09/26 15:00:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20030926-110_43_3
+ Description:
+ - additional cleanup
+ - version number bump, NEW BOOTFILES
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/09/26 12:00:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20030926-ppautoload
+ Description:
+ I modified the read-eval-print loop so that the autoloader gets
+ invoked whenever the prettyprinter tries to look up a symbol that
+ is not currently defined in the toplevel environment but which
+ appears in CM's autoload registry.  As a result, we see far fewer of
+ those ?.Foo.Bar.xxx names in the prettyprinter's output.
+ In addition to this I tried to clean up some pieces of the Basis
+ implementation (e.g., Socket, Word8Array) in order to prevent other
+ instances of these ?.Foo.Bar.xxx names from being printed.
+ The mechanism that picks names for types still needs some work, though.
+ (Right now it seems that if there is a type A.t which is defined to
+ be B.u, but B is unavailable at toplevel, then A.t gets printed as
+ "?.B.u" although the perhaps more sensible solution would be to use
+ "A.t" in this case.  In other words, the prettyprinter should follow
+ a chain of DEFtycs not farther than there are corresponding toplevel
+ names in the current environment.)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/09/24 16:31:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20030924-installer
+ Description:
+ Another installer tweak:  All the ML code for the installer is now
+ compiled during CMB.make and put into a little library called
+ $smlnj/installer.cm.  The installation then simply invokes
+    sml -m $smlnj/installer.cm
+ and everything happens automagically.
+ Win32:  ML code senses value of environment variable SMLNJ_HOME.
+ Unix:   ML code senses values of environment variables ROOT, CONFIGDIR,
+         and BINDIR.
+ The new scheme guarantees that the ML code responsible for the installation
+ is in sync with the APIs of the main system.  Also, the installer is
+ somewhat faster because the installer script is precompiled.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/09/24 15:35:00 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20030924-synsock
+ Description:
+ Added a signature SYNCHRONOUS_SOCKET to basis.cm.  This is like SOCKET
+ but excludes all non-blocking operations.  Defined SOCKET (in Basis)
+ and CML_SOCKET in terms of SYNCHRONOUS_SOCKET.  Removed superfluous
+ implementations of non-blocking operations from CML's Socket
+ structure.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
+ Date: 2003/09/24 15:10:05 CDT
+ Tag: blume-20030924-sockets
+ Description:
+. Fixed SOCKET API and implementation to match Basis spec.
+    This required changing the internal representation of sockets to one
+    that remembers (for each socket file descriptor) whether it is currently
+    blocking or non-blocking.  This state is maintained lazily (i.e., a system
+    call is made only if the state actually needs to change).
+. OS-specific details of sockets were moved into separate files, thus
+    making it possible to unify the bulk of the socket implementations
+    between Unix and Win32.
+. CML's socket API changed accordingly.
+    (Note that we need to remove non-blocking functions from this API
+    since they are redundant in the case of CML!)
+. CML's socket implementation now makes use of non-blocking functions
+    provided by Basis, thus removing all OS-dependent code from this part
+    of CML.
+. Changed Real64.precision from 52 to 53.  Minor cleanup in Real64 code.
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Name: Matthias Blume (blume (at) tti - c (dot) org)
  Date: 2003/09/22 12:10:00 CDT
- Tag: blume-20030918-110_43_2
+ Tag: blume-20030922-110_43_2
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  Made a new interim version and bootfiles for developer's bootstrapping

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