From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA27751 for caml-redistribution; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:55:12 +0100 Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA02250; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:47:38 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy Message-Id: <199603151247.NAA02250@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: Caml Special Light 1.15 To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr, comp-lang-ml@cs.cmu.edu Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:47:37 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis Caml Special Light 1.15 has just been released. The main novelties are: * Caml Special Light now runs under Windows NT and 95. Many thanks to Kevin Gallo (Microsoft Research) who contributed his initial port. In addition to the command-line compilers, there is also a graphical user interface for the toplevel derived from Jean-Marie Geffroy's GUI for Caml Light. * csllex now generates tables for a table-driven automaton. The resulting lexers are smaller and run faster. * Completely automatic configuration script. * Typing: more stringent checking of module type definitions against manifest module type specifications. * Toplevel: recursive definitions of values now working. * Native-code compiler, all platforms: toplevel "let"s with refutable patterns now working; fixed bug in assignment to float record fields; direct support for floating-point negation and absolute value. * Native-code compiler, x86: fixed bug with tail calls (with more than 4 arguments) from a function with a one-word stack frame. * Native-code compiler, Sparc: problem with -compact fixed. * Thread library: support for non-blocking writes; scheduler revised. * Unix library: bug in gethostbyaddr fixed; bounds checking for read, write, etc. This release is distributed in source format, diffs from earlier releases, and binaries for Windows, all at the usual place ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/caml-light - Xavier Leroy http://pauillac.inria.fr/csl/