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  26 <h1>Release20180207</h1>
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  31 <div class="paragraph"><p>Here you can download the latest public release of MLton, version 20180207.</p></div>
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  35 <h2 id="_changes_since_the_last_public_release">Changes since the last public release</h2>
  36 <div class="sectionbody">
  37 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  38 <li>
  39 <p>
  40 Compiler.
  41 </p>
  42 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  43 <li>
  44 <p>
  45 Added an experimental LLVM codegen (<span class="monospaced">-codegen llvm</span>); requires LLVM tools
  46   (<span class="monospaced">llvm-as</span>, <span class="monospaced">opt</span>, <span class="monospaced">llc</span>) version &ge; 3.7.
  47 </p>
  48 </li>
  49 <li>
  50 <p>
  51 Made many substantial cosmetic improvements to front-end diagnostic
  52   messages, especially with respect to source location regions, type inference
  53   for <span class="monospaced">fun</span> and <span class="monospaced">val rec</span> declarations, signature constraints applied to a
  54   structure, <span class="monospaced">sharing type</span> specifications and <span class="monospaced">where type</span> signature
  55   expressions, type constructor or type variable escaping scope, and
  56   nonexhaustive pattern matching.
  57 </p>
  58 </li>
  59 <li>
  60 <p>
  61 Fixed minor bugs with exception replication, precedence parsing of function
  62   clauses, and simultaneous <span class="monospaced">sharing</span> of multiple structures.
  63 </p>
  64 </li>
  65 <li>
  66 <p>
  67 Made compilation deterministic (eliminate output executable name from
  68   compile-time specified <span class="monospaced">@MLton</span> runtime arguments; deterministically generate
  69   magic constant for executable).
  70 </p>
  71 </li>
  72 <li>
  73 <p>
  74 Updated <span class="monospaced">-show-basis</span> (recursively expand structures in environments,
  75   displaying components with long identifiers; append <span class="monospaced">(* @ region *)</span>
  76   annotations to items shown in environment).
  77 </p>
  78 </li>
  79 <li>
  80 <p>
  81 Forced amd64 codegen to generate PIC on amd64-linux targets.
  82 </p>
  83 </li>
  84 </ul></div>
  85 </li>
  86 <li>
  87 <p>
  88 Runtime.
  89 </p>
  90 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  91 <li>
  92 <p>
  93 Added <span class="monospaced">gc-summary-file file</span> runtime option.
  94 </p>
  95 </li>
  96 <li>
  97 <p>
  98 Reorganized runtime support for <span class="monospaced">IntInf</span> operations so that programs that
  99   do not use <span class="monospaced">IntInf</span> compile to executables with no residual dependency on GMP.
 100 </p>
 101 </li>
 102 <li>
 103 <p>
 104 Changed heap representation to store forwarding pointer for an object in
 105   the object header (rather than in the object data and setting the header to a
 106   sentinel value).
 107 </p>
 108 </li>
 109 </ul></div>
 110 </li>
 111 <li>
 112 <p>
 113 Language.
 114 </p>
 115 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 116 <li>
 117 <p>
 118 Added support for selected SuccessorML features; see
 119   <a href="http://mlton.org/SuccessorML">http://mlton.org/SuccessorML</a> for details.
 120 </p>
 121 </li>
 122 <li>
 123 <p>
 124 Added <span class="monospaced">(*#showBasis "file" *)</span> directive; see
 125   <a href="http://mlton.org/ShowBasisDirective">http://mlton.org/ShowBasisDirective</a> for details.
 126 </p>
 127 </li>
 128 <li>
 129 <p>
 130 FFI:
 131 </p>
 132 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 133 <li>
 134 <p>
 135 Added <span class="monospaced">pure</span>, <span class="monospaced">impure</span>, and <span class="monospaced">reentrant</span> attributes to <span class="monospaced">_import</span>.  An
 136     unattributed <span class="monospaced">_import</span> is treated as <span class="monospaced">impure</span>.  A <span class="monospaced">pure</span> <span class="monospaced">_import</span> may be
 137     subject to more aggressive optimizations (common subexpression elimination,
 138     dead-code elimination).  An <span class="monospaced">_import</span>-ed C function that (directly or
 139     indirectly) calls an <span class="monospaced">_export</span>-ed SML function should be attributed
 140     <span class="monospaced">reentrant</span>.
 141 </p>
 142 </li>
 143 </ul></div>
 144 </li>
 145 <li>
 146 <p>
 147 ML Basis annotations.
 148 </p>
 149 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 150 <li>
 151 <p>
 152 Added <span class="monospaced">allowSuccessorML {false|true}</span> to enable all SuccessorML features
 153     and other annotations to enable specific SuccessorML features; see
 154     <a href="http://mlton.org/SuccessorML">http://mlton.org/SuccessorML</a> for details.
 155 </p>
 156 </li>
 157 <li>
 158 <p>
 159 Split <span class="monospaced">nonexhaustiveMatch {warn|error|igore}</span> and <span class="monospaced">redundantMatch
 160     {warn|error|ignore}</span> into <span class="monospaced">nonexhaustiveMatch</span> and <span class="monospaced">redundantMatch</span>
 161     (controls diagnostics for <span class="monospaced">case</span> expressions, <span class="monospaced">fn</span> expressions, and <span class="monospaced">fun</span>
 162     declarations (which may raise <span class="monospaced">Match</span> on failure)) and <span class="monospaced">nonexhaustiveBind</span>
 163     and <span class="monospaced">redundantBind</span> (controls diagnostics for <span class="monospaced">val</span> declarations (which may
 164     raise <span class="monospaced">Bind</span> on failure)).
 165 </p>
 166 </li>
 167 <li>
 168 <p>
 169 Added <span class="monospaced">valrecConstr {warn|error|ignore}</span> to report when a <span class="monospaced">val rec</span> (or
 170     <span class="monospaced">fun</span>) declaration redefines an identifier that previously had constructor
 171     status.
 172 </p>
 173 </li>
 174 </ul></div>
 175 </li>
 176 </ul></div>
 177 </li>
 178 <li>
 179 <p>
 180 Libraries.
 181 </p>
 182 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 183 <li>
 184 <p>
 185 Basis Library.
 186 </p>
 187 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 188 <li>
 189 <p>
 190 Improved performance of <span class="monospaced">Array.copy</span>, <span class="monospaced">Array.copyVec</span>, <span class="monospaced">Vector.append</span>,
 191     <span class="monospaced">String.^</span>, <span class="monospaced">String.concat</span>, <span class="monospaced">String.concatWith</span>, and other related
 192     functions by using <span class="monospaced">memmove</span> rather than element-by-element constructions.
 193 </p>
 194 </li>
 195 </ul></div>
 196 </li>
 197 <li>
 198 <p>
 199 <span class="monospaced">Unsafe</span> structure.
 200 </p>
 201 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 202 <li>
 203 <p>
 204 Added unsafe operations for array uninitialization and raw arrays; see
 205     <a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/pull/207">https://github.com/MLton/mlton/pull/207</a> for details.
 206 </p>
 207 </li>
 208 </ul></div>
 209 </li>
 210 <li>
 211 <p>
 212 Other libraries.
 213 </p>
 214 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 215 <li>
 216 <p>
 217 Updated: ckit library, MLLPT library, MLRISC library, SML/NJ library
 218 </p>
 219 </li>
 220 </ul></div>
 221 </li>
 222 </ul></div>
 223 </li>
 224 <li>
 225 <p>
 226 Tools.
 227 </p>
 228 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 229 <li>
 230 <p>
 231 mlnlffigen
 232 </p>
 233 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 234 <li>
 235 <p>
 236 Updated to warn and skip (rather than abort) when encountering functions
 237     with <span class="monospaced">struct</span>/<span class="monospaced">union</span> argument or return type.
 238 </p>
 239 </li>
 240 </ul></div>
 241 </li>
 242 </ul></div>
 243 </li>
 244 </ul></div>
 245 <div class="paragraph"><p>For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since
 246 <a href="Release20130715">Release20130715</a>, see the
 247 <a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/on-20180207-release/CHANGELOG.adoc"><span class="monospaced">CHANGELOG.adoc</span></a> and
 248 <a href="Bugs20130715">Bugs20130715</a>.</p></div>
 249 </div>
 250 </div>
 251 <div class="sect1">
 252 <h2 id="_20180207_binary_packages">20180207 binary packages</h2>
 253 <div class="sectionbody">
 254 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 255 <li>
 256 <p>
 257 AMD64 (aka "x86-64" or "x64")
 258 </p>
 259 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 260 <li>
 261 <p>
 262 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.amd64-darwin.gmp-homebrew.tgz">Darwin (.tgz)</a> 16.7 (Mac OS X Sierra), dynamically linked against <a href="GnuMP">GnuMP</a> in <span class="monospaced">/usr/local/lib</span> (suitable for <a href="https://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a> install of <a href="GnuMP">GnuMP</a>)
 263 </p>
 264 </li>
 265 <li>
 266 <p>
 267 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.amd64-darwin.gmp-static.tgz">Darwin (.tgz)</a> 16.7 (Mac OS X Sierra), statically linked against <a href="GnuMP">GnuMP</a> (but requires <a href="GnuMP">GnuMP</a> for generated executables)
 268 </p>
 269 </li>
 270 <li>
 271 <p>
 272 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.amd64-linux.tgz">Linux</a>, glibc 2.23
 273
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 277
 278 </p>
 279 </li>
 280 </ul></div>
 281 </li>
 282 </ul></div>
 283 </div>
 284 </div>
 285 <div class="sect1">
 286 <h2 id="_20180207_source_packages">20180207 source packages</h2>
 287 <div class="sectionbody">
 288 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 289 <li>
 290 <p>
 291 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207.src.tgz">mlton-20180207.src.tgz</a>
 292 </p>
 293 </li>
 294 </ul></div>
 295 </div>
 296 </div>
 297 <div class="sect1">
 298 <h2 id="_also_see">Also see</h2>
 299 <div class="sectionbody">
 300 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 301 <li>
 302 <p>
 303 <a href="Bugs20180207">Bugs20180207</a>
 304 </p>
 305 </li>
 306 <li>
 307 <p>
 308 <a href="http://www.mlton.org/guide/20180207/">MLton Guide (20180207)</a>.
 309 </p>
 310 <div class="paragraph"><p>A snapshot of the MLton website at the time of release.</p></div>
 311 </li>
 312 </ul></div>
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