Release20051202 - MLton Standard ML Compiler (SML Compiler)

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This is an archived public release of MLton, version 20051202.

## Changes since the last public release

- The MLton license is now BSD-style instead of the GPL.

- New platforms: X86/MinGW and HPPA/Linux.

- Improved and expanded documentation, based on the MLton wiki.

- Compiler.

- improved exception history.

- Command-line switches.

- Added: `-as-opt`, `-mlb-path-map`, `-target-as-opt`, `-target-cc-opt`.

- Removed: `-native`, `-sequence-unit`, `-warn-match`, `-warn-unused`.

- Language.

- FFI syntax changes and extensions.

- Added: `_symbol`.

- Changed: `_export`, `_import`.

- Removed: `_ffi`.

- ML Basis annotations.

- Added: `allowFFI`, `nonexhaustiveExnMatch`, `nonexhaustiveMatch`, `redundantMatch`, `sequenceNonUnit`.

- Deprecated: `allowExport`, `allowImport`, `sequenceUnit`, `warnMatch`.

- Libraries.

o Basis Library.

- Added: Int1, Word1.

o MLton structure.

- Added: `Process.create`, `ProcEnv.setgroups`, `Rusage.measureGC`, `Socket.fdToSock`, `Socket.Ctl.getError`.

- Changed: `MLton.Platform.Arch`.

o Other libraries.

- Added: ckit, ML-NLFFI library, SML/NJ library.

- Tools.

- Updates of mllex and mlyacc from SML/NJ.

- Added mlnlffigen.

- Profiling supports better inclusion/exclusion of code.

For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since Release20041109, see the changelog and Bugs20041109.

## 20051202 binary packages

- x86

- Cygwin 1.5.18-1

- FreeBSD 5.4

- Linux

- Debian sid

- Debian stable (Sarge)

- RedHat 7.1-9.3 FC1-FC4

- tgz for other distributions (glibc 2.3)

- MinGW

- NetBSD 2.0.2

- OpenBSD 3.7

- PowerPC

- Darwin 7.9.0 (Mac OS X)

- Sparc

- Solaris 8

## 20051202 source packages

- source tgz

- Debian dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz

- RedHat source rpm

## Packages available at other sites

- Debian

- FreeBSD

- Fedora Core 4 5

- Ubuntu

## Also see

- Bugs20051202

- MLton Guide (20051202). A snapshot of the MLton wiki at the time of release.

Last edited on 2007-08-26 19:56:57 by MatthewFluet.