Objective Caml 1.00: -------------------- * Merge of Jerome Vouillon and Didier Remy's object-oriented extensions. * All libraries: all "new" functions renamed to "create" because "new" is now a reserved keyword. * Compilation of "or" patterns (pat1 | pat2) completely revised to avoid code size explosion. * Compiler support for preprocessing source files (-pp flag). * Library construction: flag -linkall to force linking of all units in a library. * Native-code compiler: port to the Sparc under NetBSD. * Toplevel: fixed bug when tracing several times the same function under different names. * New format for marshaling arbitrary data structures, allows marshaling to/from strings. * Standard library: new module Genlex (configurable lexer for streams) * Thread library: much better support for I/O and blocking system calls. * Graphics library: faster reclaimation of unused pixmaps. * Unix library: new functions {set,clear}_nonblock, {set,clear}_close_on_exec, {set,get}itimer, inet_addr_any, {get,set}sockopt. * Dynlink library: added support for linking libraries (.cma files). Caml Special Light 1.15: ------------------------ * Caml Special Light now runs under Windows NT and 95. Many thanks to Kevin Gallo (Microsoft Research) who contributed his initial port. * csllex now generates tables for a table-driven automaton. The resulting lexers are smaller and run faster. * Completely automatic configuration script. * Typing: more stringent checking of module type definitions against manifest module type specifications. * Toplevel: recursive definitions of values now working. * Native-code compiler, all platforms: toplevel "let"s with refutable patterns now working; fixed bug in assignment to float record fields; direct support for floating-point negation and absolute value. * Native-code compiler, x86: fixed bug with tail calls (with more than 4 arguments) from a function with a one-word stack frame. * Native-code compiler, Sparc: problem with -compact fixed. * Thread library: support for non-blocking writes; scheduler revised. * Unix library: bug in gethostbyaddr fixed; bounds checking for read, write, etc. Caml Special Light 1.14: ------------------------ * cslopt ported to the PowerPC/RS6000 architecture. Better support for AIX in the bytecode system as well. * cslopt, all platforms: fixed bug in live range splitting around catch/exit. * cslopt for the Intel (floating-point wars, chapter 4): implemented Ershov's algorithm to minimize floating-point stack usage; out-of-order pops fixed. * Several bug fixes in callbacks and signals. Caml Special Light 1.13: ------------------------ * Pattern-matching compilation revised to factor out accesses inside matched structures. * Callbacks and signals now supported in cslopt. Signals are only detected at allocation points, though. Added callback functions with 2 and 3 arguments. * More explicit error messages when a native-code program aborts due to array or string bound violations. * In patterns, "C _" allowed even if the constructor C has several arguments. * && and || allowed as alternate syntax for & and or. * cslopt for the Intel: code generation for floating-point operations entirely redone for the third time (a pox on whomever at Intel decided to organize the floating-point registers as a stack). * cslopt for the Sparc: don't use Sparc V8 smul and sdiv instructions, emulation on V7 processors is abysmal. Caml Special Light 1.12: ------------------------ * Fixed an embarrassing bug with references to floats. Caml Special Light 1.11: ------------------------ * Streams and stream parsers a la Caml Light are back (thanks to Daniel de Rauglaudre). * User-level concurrent threads, with low-level shared memory primitives (locks and conditions) as well as channel-based communication primitives with first-class synchronous events, in the style of Reppy's CML. * The native-code compiler has been ported to the HP PA-RISC processor running under NextStep (sorry, no HPUX, its linker keeps dumping core on me). * References not captured in a function are optimized into variables. * Fixed several bugs related to exceptions. * Floats behave a little more as specified in the IEEE standard (believe it or not, but x < y is not the negation of x >= y). * Lower memory consumption for the native-code compiler. Caml Special Light 1.10: ------------------------ * Many bug fixes (too many to list here). * Module language: introduction of a "with module" notation over signatures for concise sharing of all type components of a signature; better support for concrete types in signatures. * Native-code compiler: the Intel 386 version has been ported to NextStep and FreeBSD, and generates better code (especially for floats) * Tools and libraries: the Caml Light profiler and library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic have been ported (thanks to John Malecki and Victor Manuel Gulias Fernandez); better docs for the Unix and regexp libraries. Caml Special Light 1.07: ------------------------ * Syntax: optional ;; allowed in compilation units and structures (back by popular demand) * cslopt: generic handling of float arrays fixed direct function application when the function expr is not a path fixed compilation of "let rec" over values fixed multiple definitions of a value name in a module correctly handled no calls to ranlib in Solaris * csltop: #trace now working * Standard library: added List.memq; documentation of Array fixed. Caml Special Light 1.06: ------------------------ * First public release.