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1 :	dbm	570	This is the HISTORY file for the Yale SML/NJ CVS repository.
2 :
3 :			An entry should be made for _every_ commit to the repository.
4 :			The entries in this file will be used when creating the README
5 :			for new versions, so keep that in mind when writing the
6 :			description.
7 :
8 :			The form of an entry should be:
9 :
10 :			Name:
11 :			Date:
12 :			Tag: <post-commit CVS tag>
13 :			Description:
14 :
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16 :	blume	572	Name: Matthias Blume
17 :	blume	575	Date: 00/03/09 10:23:53
18 :			Tag: blume_main_v110p26p1_0
19 :			Description:
20 :
21 :			* Complete re-organization of library names. Many libraries have been
22 :			consolidated so that they share the same path anchor. For example,
23 :			all MLRISC-related libraries are anchored at MLRISC, most libraries that
24 :			are SML/NJ-specific are under "smlnj". Notice that names like
25 :			host-cmb.cm or host-compiler.cm no longer exist. See system/README
26 :			for a complete description of the new naming scheme. Quick reference:
27 :
28 :			host-cmb.cm -> smlnj/cmb.cm
29 :			host-compiler.cm -> smlnj/compiler.cm
30 :			full-cm.cm -> smlnj/cm.cm
31 :			<arch>-<os>.cm -> smlnj/cmb/<arch>-<os>.cm
32 :			<arch>-compiler.cm -> smlnj/compiler/<arch>.cm
33 :
34 :			* Bug fixes in CM.
35 :			- exceptions in user code are being passed through (i.e., reach top level)
36 :			- more bugs in paranoia mode fixed
37 :			- bug related to checking group owners fixed
38 :
39 :			* New install.sh script that automagically fetches archive files:
40 :			The new file config/srcarchiveurl must contain the URL of the
41 :			(remote) directory that contains bin files (or other source archives).
42 :			If install.sh does not find the archive locally, it tries to get
43 :			it from that remote directory.
44 :			This should simplify installation further: For machines that have
45 :			access to the internet, just fetch <version>-config.tgz, unpack it,
46 :			edit config/targets, and go (run config/install.sh). The scipt will
47 :			fetch everything else that it might need all by itself.
48 :
49 :			For CVS users, this mechanism is not relevant for source archives, but
50 :			it is convenient for getting new sets of binfiles.
51 :
52 :			Archives should be tar files compressed with either gzip, compress, or
53 :			bzip2. The script recognizes .tgz, .tar, tar.gz, tz, .tar.Z, and .tar.bz2.
54 :
55 :			----------------------------------------------------------------------
56 :			Name: Matthias Blume
57 :	blume	572	Date: 2000/03/07 04:01:04
58 :			Tag: blume_main_v110_26_2
59 :	dbm	570	Description:
60 :	blume	572	- size info in BOOTLIST
61 :			* no fixed upper limits for number of bootfiles or length of
62 :			bootfile names in runtime
63 :			* falling back to old behavior if no BOOTLIST size info found
64 :			- allocation size heuristics in .run-sml
65 :			* tries to read cache size from /proc/cpuinfo (this is important for
66 :			small-cache Celeron systems!)
67 :			- install.sh robustified
68 :			- CM manual updates
69 :			- paranoid mode
70 :			* no more CMB.deliver() (i.e., all done by CMB.make())
71 :			* can re-use existing sml.boot.* files
72 :			* init.cmi now treated as library
73 :			* library stamps for consistency checks
74 :			- sml.boot.<arch>-<os>/PIDMAP file
75 :			* This file is read by the CM startup code. This is used to minimize
76 :			the amount of dynamic state that needs to be stowed away for the
77 :			purpose of sharing between interactive system and user code.
78 :			- CM.Anchor.anchor instead of CM.Anchor.{set,cancel}
79 :			* Upon request by Elsa. Anchors now controlled by get-set-pair
80 :			like most other CM state variables.
81 :			- Compiler.CMSA eliminated
82 :			* No longer supported by CM anyway.
83 :			- fixed bugs in pickler that kept biting Stefan
84 :			* past refs to past refs (was caused by the possibility that
85 :			ad-hoc sharing is more discriminating than hash-cons sharing)
86 :			* integer overflow on LargeInt.minInt
87 :			- ml-{lex,yacc} build scripts now use new mechanism
88 :			for building standalone programs
89 :			- fixed several gcc -Wall warnings that were caused by missing header
90 :			files, missing initializations, etc., in runtime (not all warnings
91 :			eliminated, though)

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