S M L / N J
1 1 0 . 6 0 N E W S
November 9, 2006
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/110.60/
Summary:
Support for Mac OS X on Intel machines, new directory layout,
subversion-based source repository, preliminary amd64 support
in MLRISC and backend, new code generator tools
(ml-ulex, ml-antlr).
Details:
- MLRISC:
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- support for amd64 added (not yet thoroughly tested)
- compiler:
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- preliminary hook-up of amd64 backend
- runtime:
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- worked around problem with signal delivery on Intel-based Macs
- ml-lpt (language processing tools):
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- two new tools: ml-ulex, ml-antlr
- ml-ulex: lexer generator with unicode support
- ml-antlr: ANTLR-inspired LL(k) parser generator
- first public release; still "beta" quality
- source repository:
-
- the SML/NJ sources are now hosted at smlnj-gforge.cs.uchicago.edu
- the revision control system is now subversion
- the project name is "smlnj"
- source code available via anonymous subversion from
svn://smlnj-gforge.cs.uchicago.edu/smlnj
- source code (directory-) tree has new layout
- scripts:
-
- scripts adjusted to deal with new directory layout
- three scripts for simplifying svn access added:
check out svn://smlnj-gforge.cs.uchicago.edu/smlnj/admin
and put it on your shell's PATH
- use checkout-all.sh to get a fresh copy of the sources
- refresh-all.sh: perform svn update on each source (sub-)tree
- stat-all.sh: perform svn stat on each source (sub-)tree
- see HISTORY file for details
on new layout