This is Version 110.0.7 of Standard ML of New Jersey, also known as Version 110, Patch 7. The primary purpose of this patch version is to fix a bug in the implementation of signals that caused problems in CML, but a number of other bug fixes are included, as well as some enhancements. Specifically, the SML/NJ Library has had a number of additions. For details of changes, improvements, and bug fixes for this and previous 110 patch versions, read the 110-PATCH-HISTORY.

Version 110 implements the SML '97 definition, including the new Basis library, with a few minor omissions and discrepancies that are documented in the SML '97 Conversion Guide.

Version 110 has been thoroughly tested and we believe it to be fairly free of serious bugs and instabilities. As usual, the bug lists are available from the bugs page. We strongly urge that those who are still using SML/NJ 0.93 and those who have been using intermediate working versions should move to Version 110.

The Version 110 distribution includes:

the interactive SML/NJ compiler itself

CM - an itegrated compilation manager supporting separate compilation, automatic dependency analysis, autoloading

The Standard ML of New Jersey Library (smlnj-lib)

CML - Concurrent ML

eXene - an elegant interface to X11 (based on CML)

SMLNJ-C library for interfacing to C code

Visible Compiler facilities for access to compiler internals

A programming toolset: ML-Lex, ML-Yacc, ML-Burg, execution profiler

Systems supported

SML/NJ 110 has been tested on these machine/OS combinations:

Sparc (Ultra II): Solaris 5.5.1 through Solaris 8

Alpha: Digital Unix 4.0

MIPS (R10000): IRIX 6.5

IA-32 (Pentium): Solaris 8, FreeBSD 3.2, Linux, Win98, WinNT, Win2000

HP HPPA: HPUX 10.1

The IBM RS6000/AIX[3.2, 4.1] platform should also be supported, but we no longer have such a machine to test on. The system may also run under Sparc/SunOS 4.x and MIPS/IRIX 5.x,6.[2-4], but hasn't been tested on those platforms. Please let us know if you can successfully install on a configuration not listed above.

We recommend running SML/NJ on machines with at least 32MB of physical ram, which will be adaquate for small projects and classroom exercises. As usual, larger projects will run better with more ram.

There is a performance issue that may affect users running on machines with small swap spaces. Because of new optimizations performed by the compiler and a conservative strategy for allocating virtual memory in the runtime system, Version 110 can require significantly more virtual memory than was used by 0.93, particularly during compilation of large source files, while at the same time using less physical memory than 0.93. This means that if you have a small swap space allocated on your machine, you may need to increase the allocation in order to compile or run some large programs. A future version of the runtime system will implement a tighter allocation scheme that will reduce virtual memory usage.

Documentation

The documentation for Version 110 is available at our web site

http://www.smlnj.org

including nearly final documentation of the SML'97 Basis Library and an SML'97 Conversion Guide that describes language changes. Work is continuing to improve the content and organization of the documentation, so it would be worthwhile checking back periodically. We welcome suggestions and corrections.

The directory tree of the SML/NJ web page documentation, including the Basis web pages, is available for Basis documentation pages are also available separately as a gzipped tar file.

ftp//ftp.research.bell-labs.com/dist/smlnj/doc/SMLNJ/smlnj.tar.Z
ftp//ftp.research.bell-labs.com/dist/smlnj/doc/Basis/SMLBasis.tar.gz

Distribution Files

The Version 110 distribution files are available at

SourceForge (the master site)

http://www.smlnj.org/dist/release/110.0.7/

University of Chicago

http://smlnj.cs.uchicago.edu/dist/release/110.0.7/

Stanford University

ftp://rodin.stanford.edu/pub/smlnj/release/110/

Yale University

ftp://flint.cs.yale.edu/pub/smlnj/release/110/

DIKU (Copenhagen University)

ftp://ftp.diku.dk/pub/smlnj/release/110/

Cambridge University

ftp://ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/MIRRORED/smlnj/release/110/

SunSITE UK (Imperial College)

ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/ml/smlnj/release/110/

National Technical Univ. of Athens

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/smlnj/release/110/

KAIST Korea

ftp://compiler.kaist.ac.kr/pub/sml/release/110/

The distribution consists of the following files (most of the files are in Unix compressed tar format, indicated by the ".tar.Z" suffix).

110-README	1 Kb	Read Me (this file)
110-PATCH-HISTORY	96 Kb	Information about bug fixes and changes in the 110 patch versions
110-HISTORY	96 Kb	History of previous working versions
110-INSTALL	3 Kb	How to install
LICENSE	3 Kb	SML/NJ License
smlnj.exe	6565 Kb	Self-installing EXE for Win '95 and NT
RPMS directory	6565 Kb	Linux RPM packages
bin.alpha32-unix.tar.Z	4394 Kb	for DEC Alpha, Digital Unix 4.0
bin.hppa-unix.tar.Z.	4615 Kb	for HPPA processors
bin.mipseb-unix.tar.Z	4188 Kb	for Silicon Graphics machines
bin.rs6000-unix.tar.Z	4317 Kb	for IBM Power processors
bin.sparc-unix.tar.Z	4184 Kb	for SPARC processors
bin.x86-unix.tar.Z	3440 Kb	for Intel Pentium processors running UNIX.
bin.x86-win32.tar.Z	3349 Kb	for Intel Pentium processors running Windows.
cm.tar.Z	524 Kb	Compilation Manager
cml.tar.Z	154 Kb	Concurrent ML
config.tar.Z	10 Kb	Installation scripts
eXene.tar.Z	1079 Kb	eXene window system
ml-burg.tar.Z	95 Kb	Burg code-generator generator
ml-lex.tar.Z	44 Kb	ML-Lex scanner generator
ml-yacc.tar.Z	148 Kb	ML-Yacc parser generator
runtime.tar.Z	588 Kb	Runtime system
sml-nj.tar.Z	1572 Kb	Source code for compiler
smlnj-c.tar.Z	102 Kb	ML-to-C library
smlnj-lib.tar.Z	344 Kb	SML of NJ Library

You will need at least the config.tar.Z, runtime.tar.Z, the bin.* files for the machines on which you intend to install the software, and the source files for the components (CM, ml-lex, ml-yacc, cml, eXene) that you want installed (these are defined in the config/targets file). The file smlnj.exe can be used to automatically install SML/NJ on Windows 95 and NT, and the rpm package RPMS/smlnj-110.0.7-0.i386.rpm can be used to install under Linux (tested under Red Hat Linux 6.1). More detailed installation instructions are in the 110-INSTALL file or at the web page:

http://www.smlnj.org/install/index.html

News about SML/NJ

New releases of our software are announced in the netnews group comp.lang.ml.

License

Standard ML of New Jersey is distributed free of charge and with no warranty. You may use, copy, modify, and distribute the software provided that you preserve the copyright notice and don't mention Bell Laboratories or Lucent Technologies in your advertising without prior written permission; see the license for the legal language.

Contact Info

If you have general questions or comments, please email them to .

Bug reports should be sent to the same address, preferably using the bug report form. Bug reports can also be submitted using our online bug form.