SML/NJ 110.45 NEWS

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  		         February 13, 2004

			      WARNING

  	This working version is believed to be stable, but
	we have not run our full regression-test suite.

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Summary:

This is a maintenance release which fixes some minor problems, most notably an incompatibility with GCC 3.3.

Details:

Basis:

Timer interface changed in anticipation of a change to the spec
POSIX_FLAGS replaced with BIT_FLAGS
type of top-level app corrected
other minor discrepancies with spec fixed

runtime:

added vp_limitPtrMask to win32-specific code
added win32 Sleep function to runtime
dropped "-ansi" flag from gcc invocation when used on assembly code (fixes problem related to gcc 3.3)

interactive loop:

- exception reporting improved (don't show part of exception history trace that reaches into the implementation of the toplevel loop itself)

MLRISC:

preliminary support for c-calls interface on PPC architecture added (not yet used for NLFFI)
bug in getreg fixed

compiler:

code generation for int32 comparisons added