S  M  L   /   N  J

                   1  1  0  .  4  7      N  E  W  S
			
                             August 4, 2004

                                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/110.47/

Summary:

Details:

NLFFI:

• preliminary support for Mac OS X added
• preliminary support for Win32 added (untested; currently can only interface with C functions using the stdcall calling conventions)
• function arguments that are C unions are now handled
• various minor bug fixes to ml-nlffigen
• preliminary documentation for nlffi and ml-nlffigen (currently only describes the output of ml-nlffigen; see src/ml-nlffi-lib/Doc/manual/nlffi.tex)

Compilation Manager:

• made make commend in CM's make tool configurable
• added option (default: on) for passing the name of the SML/NJ's bin directory to make; This can be used by the Makefile to, e.g., pick the "right" version of ml-nlffigen.

Basis:

• Changed the implementation of structure Unix so that the same stream is returned every time one of the {text,bin}{In,Out}streamOf functions is invoked on the same proc. (NOTE: This is not what the spec says, so it will probably change again. Don't rely on it!)

Windows port:

• bug fixes:
  • NULL test in gmtime and localtime
  • toSeconds -> toMilliseconds in win32-process.sml (Basis implementation)

Installer:

• eliminated some shell syntax not understood by /bin/sh under Solaris

Compiler internals:

• low-level support for choosing C calling conventions by twiddling the type of of the rawccall primop (see src/compiler/Semant/types/cproto.sml for details)
• use paramAlloc to report c-calls with too many arguments (for PPC version where parameter area is pre-allocated)
• added ccall_maxargspace to machspec (to implement the above)

MLRISC:

• redesigned c-calls interface
• c-calls implementation for ppc-macosx added
• Added these instructions to the PowerPC architecture: LWARX, STWCX, LBZU(X), LHZU(X), LWZU(X), STWU(X), STFDU, STFSU, etc. (Instruction encodings not added yet, though.)
• loop-structure.sml has been rewritten