Re: [Caml-list] OCaml 4.02.1 is coming soon

[Nick Lucaroni <nicholas.r.lucaroni@gmail.com>]

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I forgot we had been using some magic to convert strings. that's the price
we pay.

nick

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Nick Lucaroni <
nicholas.r.lucaroni@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are the formatting issues resolved in the 4.02.0+turnk switch in OPAM
> (that's, dev0-2014-08-29)? I'm getting segmentation faults from fprintf in
> my application even in that branch (see below). I'll work to pin it down as
> it very well could be a miss-formatted string on my part, but obviously we
> shouldn't seg-fault. let me know if I should hold off.
>
> thanks,
> nick
>
> Time: 48706621 - pc: 98976 - module CamlinternalFormat
> 1375 fun k o acc fmt -> <|b|>match fmt with
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:08 PM, <av1474@comtv.ru> wrote:
>
>> Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr> writes:
>>
>> > Dear OCaml users,
>> >
>> > The rather large amount of changes in the newly released 4.02
>> > inevitably caused some issues in the very first minor release. We
>> > shall have a 4.02.1 bugfix release coming soon, hopefully in early
>> > October.
>> >
>> > Among the few issues that have now been fixed, there are a few
>> > regressions in the new, type-safe format implementation
>> > (Printf/Scanf/Format) -- for advanced formatting features.
>> >
>> > There was also a regression in the *compilation time* of the
>> > distributed OCaml compiler, which is sensibly slower than 4.01 on
>> > multi-module programs. This is already fixed in the development
>> > version of the compiler and will be part of the bugfix release.
>> >
>>
>> Compilation of [1] skyrocketed (at least here on rather oldish PPC
>> machine), hopfully things would be a bit better in 4.02.1.
>>
>> > Any additional testing to find and report other regressions is more
>> > than welcome. If you have not yet tested your programs with 4.02, now
>> > is the time to give it a try!
>> >
>> >
>> > -- Damien
>>
>> [1]
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git/blob/53f1bca0140d03d9f2e1437a4ad0dbc3f7e85ce0:/main.ml
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