Re: [Caml-list] OCaml 4.02.1 is coming soon

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

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Note that string_of_format is still available to safely convert a format
into a string.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Nick Lucaroni <
nicholas.r.lucaroni@gmail.com> wrote:

> I forgot we had been using some magic to convert strings. that's the price
> we pay.
>
> nick
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Nick Lucaroni <
> nicholas.r.lucaroni@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are the formatting issues resolved in the 4.02.0+turnk switch in OPAM
>> (that's, dev0-2014-08-29)? I'm getting segmentation faults from fprintf in
>> my application even in that branch (see below). I'll work to pin it down as
>> it very well could be a miss-formatted string on my part, but obviously we
>> shouldn't seg-fault. let me know if I should hold off.
>>
>> thanks,
>> nick
>>
>> Time: 48706621 - pc: 98976 - module CamlinternalFormat
>> 1375 fun k o acc fmt -> <|b|>match fmt with
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:08 PM, <av1474@comtv.ru> wrote:
>>
>>> Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr> writes:
>>>
>>> > Dear OCaml users,
>>> >
>>> > The rather large amount of changes in the newly released 4.02
>>> > inevitably caused some issues in the very first minor release. We
>>> > shall have a 4.02.1 bugfix release coming soon, hopefully in early
>>> > October.
>>> >
>>> > Among the few issues that have now been fixed, there are a few
>>> > regressions in the new, type-safe format implementation
>>> > (Printf/Scanf/Format) -- for advanced formatting features.
>>> >
>>> > There was also a regression in the *compilation time* of the
>>> > distributed OCaml compiler, which is sensibly slower than 4.01 on
>>> > multi-module programs. This is already fixed in the development
>>> > version of the compiler and will be part of the bugfix release.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Compilation of [1] skyrocketed (at least here on rather oldish PPC
>>> machine), hopfully things would be a bit better in 4.02.1.
>>>
>>> > Any additional testing to find and report other regressions is more
>>> > than welcome. If you have not yet tested your programs with 4.02, now
>>> > is the time to give it a try!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -- Damien
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git/blob/53f1bca0140d03d9f2e1437a4ad0dbc3f7e85ce0:/main.ml
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