From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA11394 for caml-redistribution; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:20:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA10690 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:43:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07577 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:43:20 +0100 (MET) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA10686 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:43:19 +0100 (MET) From: Xavier Leroy Message-Id: <199712111743.SAA10686@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: Objective Caml 1.07 released To: caml-list@inria.fr Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:43:18 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis This is end-of-year clearance here at INRIA, so we've just released version 1.07 of Objective Caml. Compared with 1.06, this is a bug-fix release that provides no new features, but fixes some serious bugs in the native thread library, and a number of small glitches in the system and documentation. See the end of this message for a more complete list. Usually, this wouldn't deserve a release in itself, but we're about to put Objective Caml on a CD-ROM distribution and we wanted to fix the known problem with 1.06 before. Objective Caml 1.07 is available from ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/caml-light, in the following files: ocaml-1.07.tar.gz Source distribution (Unix, PC, Mac) ocaml-1.07-1.i386.rpm Binaries for Linux RedHat / Intel ocaml-1.07-win.zip Binaries for Windows 95 and NT ocaml-1.07-refman.* Documentation, in various formats ocaml-1.06-1.07.diffs.gz Source diffs from 1.06 For general info on Objective Caml, see http://pauillac.inria.fr/ocaml/ - Xavier Leroy, for the Objective Caml team -------------- Detailed list of changes: * Native-code compiler: - Revised interface between generated code and GC, fixes serious GC problems with signals and native threads. - Added "-thread" option for compatibility with ocamlc. * Debugger: correctly print instance variables of objects. * Run-time system: ported to OpenBSD. * Standard library: fixed wrong interface for Marshal.to_buffer and Obj.unmarshal. * Num library: added Intel x86 optimized asm code (courtesy of Bernard Serpette). * Thread libraries: - Native threads: fixed GC bugs and installation procedure. - Bytecode threads: fixed problem with "Marshal" module. - Both: added Event.always. * MS Windows port: better handling of long command lines in Sys.command