Release20070826

This is an archived public release of MLton, version 20070826.

Changes since the last public release

New platforms:
- AMD64/Linux, AMD64/FreeBSD
- HPPA/HPUX
- PowerPC/AIX
- X86/Darwin (Mac OS X)
Compiler.
- Support for 64-bit platforms.
  - Native amd64 codegen.
- Compile-time options.
  - Added: -codegen amd64, -codegen x86, -default-type type, -profile-val {false|true}.
  - Changed: -stop f (file listing now includes .mlb files).
- Bytecode codegen.
  - Support for exception history.
  - Support for profiling.
Language.
- ML Basis annotations.
  - Removed: allowExport, allowImport, sequenceUnit, warnMatch.
Libraries.
- Basis Library.
  - Added: PackWord16Big, PackWord16Little, PackWord64Big, PackWord64Little.
  - Bug fixes: see changelog.
- MLton structure.
  - Added: MLTON_MONO_ARRAY, MLTON_MONO_VECTOR, MLTON_REAL, MLton.BinIO.tempPrefix, MLton.CharArray, MLton.CharVector, MLton.Exn.defaultTopLevelHandler, MLton.Exn.getTopLevelHandler, MLton.Exn.setTopLevelHandler, MLton.IntInf.BigWord, Mlton.IntInf.SmallInt, MLton.LargeReal, MLton.LargeWord, MLton.Real, MLton.Real32, MLton.Real64, MLton.Rlimit.Rlim, MLton.TextIO.tempPrefix, MLton.Vector.create, MLton.Word.bswap, MLton.Word8.bswap, MLton.Word16, MLton.Word32, MLton.Word64, MLton.Word8Array, MLton.Word8Vector.
  - Changed: MLton.Array.unfoldi, MLton.IntInf.rep, MLton.Rlimit, MLton.Vector.unfoldi.
  - Deprecated: MLton.Socket.
- Other libraries.
  - Added: MLRISC library.
  - Updated: ckit library, SML/NJ library.
Tools.

For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since Release20051202, see the changelog and Bugs20051202.

AMD64
- Linux, glibc 2.3
HPPA
- HPUX 11.00 and above, statically linked against GMP
PowerPC
- AIX 5.1 and above, statically linked against GMP
- Darwin 8.10 (Mac OS X), statically linked against GMP
- Darwin 8.10 (Mac OS X), dynamically linked against GMP in /opt/local/lib (suitable for MacPorts install of GMP)
Sparc
- Solaris 8 and above, statically linked against GMP
X86
- Cygwin 1.5.24-2
- Darwin (.tgz) 8.10 (Mac OS X), dynamically linked against GMP in /opt/local/lib (suitable for MacPorts install of GMP)
- Darwin (.dmg) 8.10 (Mac OS X), dynamically linked against GMP in /opt/local/lib (suitable for MacPorts install of GMP)
- Darwin (.tgz) 8.10 (Mac OS X), statically linked against GMP
- Darwin (.dmg) 8.10 (Mac OS X), statically linked against GMP
- FreeBSD
- Linux, glibc 2.3
- Linux, glibc 2.1, statically linked against GMP
- MinGW, dynamically linked against GMP (requires libgmp-3.dll)
- MinGW, statically linked against GMP