Objective Caml release 3.08.4

Objective Caml release 3.08.4

[Damien Doligez]

We have the pleasure of announcing the release of

              Objective Caml version 3.08.4

This is mostly a bug-fix release; see below for the list of
changes.  Upgrading is not urgent unless you have problems with
one of the bugs listed below.

Please note that we do not guarantee binary compatibility with
previous versions (including 3.08.3).

Only the source is available for the moment.  We will provide some
binaries in the near future; in the meantime, the binaries on the
Web page are still for OCaml 3.08.3.

OCaml 3.08.4 is available at http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/release.en.html

-- Damien Doligez for the Caml Team


Objective Caml 3.08.4:
----------------------

New features:
- configure: find X11 config in some 64-bit Linux distribs
- ocamldoc: (**/**) can be canceled with another (**/**) PR#3665
- graphics: added resize_window
- graphics: check for invalid arguments to drawing primitives PR#3595
- lablbrowser: use windows subsystem on mingw

Bug fixes:
- ocamlopt: code generation problem on AMD64 PR#3640
- wrong code generated for some classes PR#3576
- fatal error when compiling some OO code PR#3745
- problem with comparison on constant constructors PR#3608
- better detection of cycles when using -rectypes
- missing case of module equality PR#3738
- better error messages for unbound type variables
- stack overflow while printing type error message PR#3705
- assert failure when typing some classes PR#3638
- bug in type_approx
- better error messages related to type variance checking
- camlp4: cryptic error message PR#3592
- camlp4: line numbers in multi-line antiquotations PR#3549
- camlp4: problem with make depend
- camlp4: parse error with :> PR#3561
- camlp4: ident conversion problem with val/contents/contents__
- camlp4: several small parsing problems PR#3688
- ocamldebug: handling of spaces in executable file name PR#3736
- emacs-mode: problem when caml-types-buffer is deleted by user PR#3704
- ocamldoc: extra backslash in ocamldoc man page PR#3687
- ocamldoc: improvements to HTML display PR#3698
- ocamldoc: escaping of @ in info files
- ocamldoc: escaping of . and \ in man pages PR#3686
- ocamldoc: better error reporting of misplaced comments
- graphics: fixed .depend file PR#3558
- graphics: segfault with threads and graphics PR#3651
- nums: several bugs: PR#3718, PR#3719, others
- nums: inline asm problems with gcc 4.0 PR#3604, PR#3637
- threads: problem with backtrace
- unix: problem with getaddrinfo PR#3565
- stdlib: documentation of Int32.rem and Int64.rem PR#3573
- stdlib: documentation of List.rev_map2 PR#3685
- stdlib: wrong order in Map.fold PR#3607
- stdlib: documentation of maximum float array length PR#3714
- yacc: avoid name capture for idents of the Parsing module

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Re: [Caml-list] Objective Caml release 3.08.4

[Christopher Campbell]

Damien Doligez wrote:
> 
> We have the pleasure of announcing the release of
> 
>              Objective Caml version 3.08.4
> 
> This is mostly a bug-fix release; see below for the list of
> changes.  Upgrading is not urgent unless you have problems with
> one of the bugs listed below.


Thanks!  Especially for the 64 bit fixes!

Re: [Caml-list] Objective Caml release 3.08.4

[Damien Guichard]

Many thanks for your dedication and continuing OCaml development.

> Bug fixes:
> - ocamlopt: code generation problem on AMD64 PR#3640
> - wrong code generated for some classes PR#3576
> - fatal error when compiling some OO code PR#3745
> - problem with comparison on constant constructors PR#3608
> - better detection of cycles when using -rectypes
> - missing case of module equality PR#3738
> - better error messages for unbound type variables
> - stack overflow while printing type error message PR#3705

My program does intensive <, >, and = comparisons on many constant
constructors.
Should i worry whereas everything seems to work fine (till now) ?
Where can i get more info about this bug PR#3608 ?
My environment is OCaml 3.08.3 on Win98se.

Considerations,

- damien

Re: [Caml-list] Objective Caml release 3.08.4

[Eric Cooper]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:43:43PM +0200, Damien Guichard wrote:
> Where can i get more info about this bug PR#3608 ?

http://pauillac.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs/fixed?id=3608;user=guest;selectid=3608

-- 
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: [Caml-list] Objective Caml release 3.08.4

[Damien Guichard]

Many thanks.

I don't feel concerned as i only use the top-level, the bug eventually
affects ocamlc, never the top-level.
Also the given example uses None and Some, the latter is not a constant
constructor.
The comparisons i do are always a constant constructor vs. another constant
constructor.

- damien


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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:43:43PM +0200, Damien Guichard wrote:
> > Where can i get more info about this bug PR#3608 ?
>
>
http://pauillac.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs/fixed?id=3608;user=guest;selectid=360
8
>
> --
> Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u
>
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Re: [Caml-list] Objective Caml release 3.08.4

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 16.08.2005 02:37, Damien Doligez wrote:

> We have the pleasure of announcing the release of
> 
>              Objective Caml version 3.08.4
> 
[...]
> Only the source is available for the moment.

I've compiled a number of binary packages of OCaml 3.08.4 (Fedora Core 
2, 3, and 4, Mandrake 10.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4). They are 
available at http://rpm.nogin.org/ocaml.html

-- 
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