Minor installation bugs (?)

Stephen Weeks sweeks@intertrust.com
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:23:26 -0700 (PDT)


> I have mlton-1999-3-19.1 -- if there is a later version then these bugs may
> have been fixed.
> 
> 1) mlton-lib.h refers to <huge_val.h> which is neither a standard .h file nor
> is it included in the distribution.  This is presumably part of the standard
> math.h header file.
> 
> 2) In looking at mlton-lib.h, I noticed
> #define MLTON_Real_maxFinite 1.79769313486231470e308
> whereas limits.h on my systems have (I checked on SGI, and on Sparc systems)
> #define	DBL_MAX	             1.7976931348623157E+308
> 
> 3) the flags in src/Makefile: 
> -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
> are hardware specific.  You might want to omit them.
> 
> -- Allyn

I'm a bit confused.  Is this the message that you were referring to
in the mail that you sent with subject "Re: previous message on  MLton
installation"?  The messages seem to have arrived out of order.