From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA01FBBAF for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:58:33 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,215,1241388000"; d="scan'208";a="40232357" Received: from 250-95.msr-inria.inria.fr (HELO [10.0.1.199]) ([193.55.250.95]) by mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 19 May 2009 16:58:33 +0200 Message-Id: <4BEDBC76-E31B-4D5C-97CB-7E0A24F4E5A4@inria.fr> From: Damien Doligez To: caml users Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:58:33 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Spam: no; 0.00; damien:01 damien:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 ocaml-:01 ocaml-:01 bug:01 ocamldebug:01 ocamldebug:01 regexp:01 scanf:01 multithread:01 macos:01 debugger:01 dynlink:01 Dear OCaml users, It is our pleasure to announce that release 3.11.1 is imminent. We have uploaded a release candidate at this address: < http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.11/ocaml-3.11.1+rc0.tar.gz > See the list of changes below. We need you to test this on as many system types as possible. Please report success or failure to as usual. -- Damien Objective Caml 3.11.1: ---------------------- Bug fixes: - PR#4095: ocamldebug: strange behaviour of control-C - PR#4403: ocamldebug: improved handling of packed modules - PR#4650: Str.regexp_case_fold mis-handling complemented character sets [^a] - PR#4660: Scanf.format_from_string: handling of double quote - PR#4666: Unix.exec* failure in multithread programs under MacOS X and FreeBSD - PR#4667: debugger out of sync with dynlink changes - PR#4678: random "out of memory" error with systhreads - PR#4690: issue with dynamic loading under MacOS 10.5 - PR#4692: wrong error message with options -i and -pack passed to ocamlc - PR#4699: in otherlibs/dbm, fixed construction of dlldbm.so. - PR#4704: error in caml_modify_generational_global_root() - PR#4708: (ocamldoc) improved printing of infix identifiers such as "lor". - PR#4722: typo in configure script - PR#4729: documented the fact that PF_INET6 is not available on all platforms - PR#4730: incorrect typing involving abbreviation "type 'a t = 'a" - PR#4731: incorrect quoting of arguments passed to the assembler on x86-64 - PR#4735: Unix.LargeFile.fstat cannot report size over 32bits on Win32 - PR#4740: guard against possible processor error in {Int32,Int64,Nativeint}.{div,rem} - PR#4745: type inference wrongly produced non-generalizable type variables. - PR#4749: better pipe size for win32unix - PR#4756: printf: no error reported for wrong format '%_s' - PR#4758: scanf: handling of \ by format '%S' - PR#4766: incorrect simplification of some type abbreviations. - PR#4768: printf: %F does not respect width and precision specifications - PR#4769: Format.bprintf fails to flush - PR#4775: compiler crash on crazy types (temporary fix) - PR#4776: bad interaction between exceptions and classes - PR#4780: labltk build problem under Windows. - PR#4790: under Windows, map ERROR_NO_DATA Win32 error to EPIPE Unix error. - PR#4792: bug in Big_int.big_int_of_int64 on 32-bit platforms. - Module Parsing: improved computation of locations when an ocamlyacc rule starts with an empty nonterminal - Type-checker: fixed wrong variance computation for private types - x86-32 code generator, MSVC port: wrong "fld" instruction generated. - ocamlbuild: incorrectly using the compile-time value of $OCAMLLIB - Makefile problem when configured with -no-shared-libs - ocamldoc: use dynamic loading in native code Other changes: - Improved wording of various error messages (contributed by Jonathan Davies, Citrix). - Support for 64-bit mode in Solaris/x86 (PR#4670).