[MLton] In hope of a release ...

[Wesley W. Terpstra]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Matthew Fluet <matthew.fluet at gmail.com>wrote:

> It is fortunate that the ports have been going so smoothly.  I would
> have cautioned against it ... introducing new, and mostly untested,
> platforms shortly before a release is not a recipe for stability.
>

Well, I'd argue that porting an otherwise portable project to new platforms
usually helps turn up hidden bugs that can bite you later. Those two
alignment issues, for example. There's also a segfault on kfreebsd-amd64,
which I'll wager also stems from an actual bug in MLton (supposing I can
find it).

Of the remaining debian targets:
  mips(el) -- known to work because I've cross-compiled it to build embedded
stuff for ages, but no porter machine is available with debian that I can
bootstrap it on. hoping to find someone to loan me shell access.
  arm/m68k -- insufficient memory, so not included
  hurd-i386 -- adding hurd support would require actual new code, so no
sense trying to get this in

There are a few other items that I would like to finish before
> releasing.  One is the performance bugs identified by Reactive
> Systems.


If it's reproducible I can take a whack at it. Which issue is this? link?


> Another is a regression failure with signals on Mac OS X
> 10.5 (Leopard), which I believe is due to a broken sigaltstack, but
> have had difficulty isolating.
>

What's the failure mode?
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