S  M  L   /   N  J

                   1  1  0  .  5  6      N  E  W  S
			
                            October 25, 2005

                                WARNING

        This working version is believed to be stable, but
        we have not run our full regression-test suite.

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Summary:

  Bug fixes and minor feature enhancements.

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Libraries:
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- Added interval sets to utility library (signatures INTERVAL_DOMAIN
  and INTERVAL_SET, and functor IntervalSetFn).

Compiler:
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- Improved code generation for polymorphic equality on datatypes.

MLRISC:
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- Fixed bug in x86 register allocator.
- Some code cleanup.

Tools:
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- ml-lex now correctly recognizes \r as representing carriage return.
- ml-yacc now works with files that use non-native end-of-line encodings
  (e.g., Windows text files on a Unix system).