Standard ML of New Jersey Version 110.63 NEWS March 22, 2007 WARNING This working version is believed to be stable, but we have not run our full regression-test suite. HOME: http://www.smlnj.org/index.html FILES: http://smlnj.cs.uchicago.edu/dist/working/110.63/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: This release is primarily a bugfix release. installer: - Eliminated any mention of lexgen. (Lexgen was an early precursor to ml-ulex.) command-line tools: - Fixed typo in ml-build script that prevented library anchors from being registered. SML Basis Library: - Fixed a number of inconsistencies between the Posix.TTY structure and the Basis specification. Thanks to Adam Chilpala. CM: - Fixed bug in CM's parallel make facility that failed to have the master re-link modules after letting slaves compile them. MLRISC: - x86MCEmitter crashed when the immediate operand to MOVB was outside of the range -128 ... 127. Only the low order 8 bits of the immediate operand are now significant. - Added preliminary support in MLRISC for Staged Allocation, a technique for specifying calling conventions. See http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/pubs/staged-abstract.html Initially, this mechanism is being used to generate C calls for the AMD64. - Fixed bogus operand sizes in AMD64 instruction spilling. runtime: - Fixed a problem with files that have very large numbers of literals. When SaveCState was called with two values to save, a subsequent GC could cause the RestoreCState to fail because the saved state had been promoted to tagless pair.