Standard ML of New Jersey
Version 110.67 NEWS
November 14, 2007
SML/NJ HOME: http://www.smlnj.org/index.html
FILES: http://smlnj.cs.uchicago.edu/dist/working/110.67/
Summary:
This release includes a revamped installer for Windows, sup****t for
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), a few enhancements and many bug fixes. The
detailed description below includes changes that were part of the
110.66 release, since it was not widely announced.
Details:
Windows:
- The installer now uses the MSI mechanism and should be much more
robust.
- We have dropped sup****t for Windows 95 and Windows 98.
- The long-standing problem with handling ^C on Windows has been
fixed.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a type error in the ml-lpt library that occurs when compiling
against a basis that was compiled with the USE_64_BIT_POSITIONS symbol
set.
- A collection of bug fixes for the Reactive library.
- Patches to sup****t Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on both Intel and PPC
Macs.
- Many fixes to the AMD64 code generator in MLRISC.
- Fixed performance bugs when dealing with very large structures and
record values.
- Fixed bug in {TextIO,BinIO}.StreamIO.endOfStream that would
incorrectly signal end of stream. (110.66)
- Real.signBit(~0.0) now returns true. (110.66)
