added support for nlffi under win32

more manual hacking

sync

slowly fleshing out the nlffi manual

minor tweak to ml-nlffigen (treatment of typedef);
added description of typedef to manual

sync some changes

nlffi documentation (a start); minor bugfix in ml-nlffigen

template for a NLFFI manual added

implemented C_UNION for ppc-macosx;
fixed bug in propagating C_UNION to backend

added C_UNION to c-types.sml

added some more testcases for nlffi

NLFFI-related code tweaks

nlffi under mac os x; NOW BOOTFILES; version 110.46.1

some minor bugfixes

implemented generic conversions in ml-nlffi-lib based on witness values

made types in C and C_Debug coincide; simplifications

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

added additional phantom type constructor to ml-nlffi-lib.cm(tag.sml)

more FFI tweaks and improvements

FFI bug fixes and small interface enhancements

more FFI fiddling

turned x86-fp on

more fiddling with the FFI interface

updates/bug fixes to FFI

updates to pgraph and, more importantly, to NLFFI

updates to CKIT, CM, NLFFI, and scripts (see HISTORY)

made exnName and exnMessage a bit more robust wrt. ml-build

bug fixes for ml-nlffigen

c-calls (and NLFFI) implementation for Sparc

several internal changes related to C calls

some cleanup of NLFFI

README files; small bugfix for ml-nlffigen

ml-nlffigen bug fix; mini-tutorial

bugs in install scripts fixed;
a minor NLFFI API change

added new FFI code to repository