Standard ML of New Jersey
Version 110.62 NEWS
March 22, 2007
WARNING
This working version is believed to be stable, but we have not run our full regression-test suite.

SML/NJ HOME:
  `http://www.smlnj.org/index.html`
FILES:
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### Summary:

This release is primarily a bugfix release.

### Details:

installer:
  - Eliminated any mention of lexgen. (Lexgen was an early precursor to ml-ulex.)
command-line tools
  - Fixed typo in ml-build script that prevented library anchors from being registered.
SML Basis library:
  - Fixed a number of inconsistencies between the Posix.TTY structure and the Basis specification. Thanks to Adam Chilpala.
CM:
  - Fixed bug in CM's parallel make facility that failed to have the master re-link modules after letting slaves compile them.
MLRISC:
  - x86MCEmitter crashed when the immediate operand to MOVB was outside of the range -128 ... 127. Only the low order 8 bits of the immediate operand are now significant.

  - Added preliminary support in MLRISC for Staged Allocation, a technique for specifying calling conventions. See

    > `http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/pubs/staged-abstract.html`

    Initially, this mechanism is being used to generate C calls for the AMD64.

  - Fixed bogus operand sizes in AMD64 instruction spilling.

runtime:
  - Fixed a problem with files that have very large numbers of literals. When SaveCState was called with two values to save, a subsequent GC could cause the RestoreCState to fail because the saved state had been promoted to tagless pair.