S  M  L   /   N  J
                   1  1  0  .  5  3      N  E  W  S
			
                          Februar 25, 2005
                                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/110.53/
Summary:
   Bugfixes and minor feature improvements.
Details:
  - Basis:
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- CML
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      - Thread-safe version of structure Atom matches
      original signature and re-uses the original implementation.
      Moreover, since an mvar is used as a lock (instead of a separate
      server thread) to protect the global hashtable, it is now
      possible to create atoms even before RunCML.doit has started
      executing.
 
- Library
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      - Moved source tree from smlnj-lib/TraceDebugProf to a new
      tools/TraceDebugProf.
 
- NLFFI
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      - Handles access to signed and unsigned long long data.
- Handles long long function arguments and results (but so far
      only on the PowerPC).
- Some organizational cleanup of the library code.
 
- ML-Yacc
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      - Fixed formatting bug that sometimes caused syntactically incorrect
      code from being formed.
 
- Runtime
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      - Fixed bug in PC-sampling profiler.
- Fixed off-by-1 bug in ML_STRING macro (which caused the names
      of certain exceptions to be garbled).
 
- Scripts
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      - Added an experimental heap2exec script (with a helper
      heap2asm script in the background).  This is experimental
      and so far only works under Mac OS X.
- Made ml-build script slightly smarter.  (One can now omit
      the 3rd argument -- which in this case is taken to be the same as
      the 1st argument without the extension.
-  _run-sml now converts SMLNJ_HOME to a POSIX pathname on
      cygwin.
 
- CM
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      Fixed its incorrect assumption about the PowerPC being
      little-endian. (PPC couldn be little-endian, but on the only
      supported platform -- Mac OS X -- it is big-endian.)
     
- MLRISC
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      - Bugfixes in c-calls implementation.