Release20180207
===============

This is an archived public release of MLton, version 20180207.

== Changes since the last public release ==

* Compiler.
  ** Added an experimental LLVM codegen (`-codegen llvm`); requires LLVM tools
  (`llvm-as`, `opt`, `llc`) version &ge; 3.7.
  ** Made many substantial cosmetic improvements to front-end diagnostic
  messages, especially with respect to source location regions, type inference
  for `fun` and `val rec` declarations, signature constraints applied to a
  structure, `sharing type` specifications and `where type` signature
  expressions, type constructor or type variable escaping scope, and
  nonexhaustive pattern matching.
  ** Fixed minor bugs with exception replication, precedence parsing of function
  clauses, and simultaneous `sharing` of multiple structures.
  ** Made compilation deterministic (eliminate output executable name from
  compile-time specified `@MLton` runtime arguments; deterministically generate
  magic constant for executable).
  ** Updated `-show-basis` (recursively expand structures in environments,
  displaying components with long identifiers; append `(* @ region *)`
  annotations to items shown in environment).
  ** Forced amd64 codegen to generate PIC on amd64-linux targets.
* Runtime.
  ** Added `gc-summary-file file` runtime option.
  ** Reorganized runtime support for `IntInf` operations so that programs that
  do not use `IntInf` compile to executables with no residual dependency on GMP.
  ** Changed heap representation to store forwarding pointer for an object in
  the object header (rather than in the object data and setting the header to a
  sentinel value).
* Language.
  ** Added support for selected SuccessorML features; see
  http://mlton.org/SuccessorML for details.
  ** Added `(*#showBasis "file" *)` directive; see
  http://mlton.org/ShowBasisDirective for details.
  ** FFI:
    *** Added `pure`, `impure`, and `reentrant` attributes to `_import`.  An
    unattributed `_import` is treated as `impure`.  A `pure` `_import` may be
    subject to more aggressive optimizations (common subexpression elimination,
    dead-code elimination).  An `_import`-ed C function that (directly or
    indirectly) calls an `_export`-ed SML function should be attributed
    `reentrant`.
  ** ML Basis annotations.
    *** Added `allowSuccessorML {false|true}` to enable all SuccessorML features
    and other annotations to enable specific SuccessorML features; see
    http://mlton.org/SuccessorML for details.
    *** Split `nonexhaustiveMatch {warn|error|igore}` and `redundantMatch
    {warn|error|ignore}` into `nonexhaustiveMatch` and `redundantMatch`
    (controls diagnostics for `case` expressions, `fn` expressions, and `fun`
    declarations (which may raise `Match` on failure)) and `nonexhaustiveBind`
    and `redundantBind` (controls diagnostics for `val` declarations (which may
    raise `Bind` on failure)).
    *** Added `valrecConstr {warn|error|ignore}` to report when a `val rec` (or
    `fun`) declaration redefines an identifier that previously had constructor
    status.
* Libraries.
  ** Basis Library.
    *** Improved performance of `Array.copy`, `Array.copyVec`, `Vector.append`,
    `String.^`, `String.concat`, `String.concatWith`, and other related
    functions by using `memmove` rather than element-by-element constructions.
  ** `Unsafe` structure.
    *** Added unsafe operations for array uninitialization and raw arrays; see
    https://github.com/MLton/mlton/pull/207 for details.
  ** Other libraries.
    *** Updated: ckit library, MLLPT library, MLRISC library, SML/NJ library
* Tools.
  ** mlnlffigen
    *** Updated to warn and skip (rather than abort) when encountering functions
    with `struct`/`union` argument or return type.

For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since
<:Release20130715:>, see the
<!ViewGitFile(mlton,on-20180207-release,CHANGELOG.adoc)> and
<:Bugs20130715:>.

== 20180207 binary packages ==

* AMD64 (aka "x86-64" or "x64")
** https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.amd64-darwin.gmp-homebrew.tgz[Darwin (.tgz)] 16.7 (Mac OS X Sierra), dynamically linked against <:GMP:> in `/usr/local/lib` (suitable for https://brew.sh/[Homebrew] install of <:GMP:>)
** https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.amd64-darwin.gmp-static.tgz[Darwin (.tgz)] 16.7 (Mac OS X Sierra), statically linked against <:GMP:> (but requires <:GMP:> for generated executables)
** https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.amd64-linux.tgz[Linux], glibc 2.23
// ** Windows MinGW 32/64 https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/MLton-20180207-1.exe[self-extracting] (28MB) or https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/MLton-20180207-1.msi[MSI] (61MB) installer
// * X86
// ** https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.x86-cygwin.tgz[Cygwin] 1.7.5
// ** https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.x86-linux.tgz[Linux], glibc 2.23
// ** https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207-1.x86-linux.static.tgz[Linux], statically linked
// ** Windows MinGW 32/64 https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/MLton-20180207-1.exe[self-extracting] (28MB) or https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/MLton-20180207-1.msi[MSI] (61MB) installer

== 20180207 source packages ==

 * https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20180207/mlton-20180207.src.tgz[mlton-20180207.src.tgz]

== Also see ==

* <:Bugs20180207:>
* http://www.mlton.org/guide/20180207/[MLton Guide (20180207)].
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A snapshot of the MLton website at the time of release.
