Standard ML of New Jersey Change Log

Restructured the repository so that the LLVM library is now a submodule (e.g., git@github.com:smlnj/smlnj-llvm-10.git). The llvm source tree has also moved from the top level to the runtime system. Furthermore, the CFG code generator is now a static library that is built in the LLVM submodule. Likewise, the cfgc tool is now located in the LLVM submodule.

John Reppy

Changed Unsafe.Real64.toBits to Unsafe.Real64.castToWord and Unsafe.Real64.fromBits to Unsafe.Real64.castFromWord. These new names match MLton’s names for these operations.

John Reppy

Reimplement the PackReal64Big and PackReal64Big structures to use the bit-casts between 64-bit reals and 64-bit words. This change fixes Issue #300 (PackReal64{Big,Little}.update is not implemented).

John Reppy

Added host_word_size and host_big_endian primops. These will expand into constant functions (e.g., fn () ⇒ 64 for host_word_size on a 64-bit system) that will be visible to the optimizer. We can then use code like:

[[source,sml]

Expose the machine property functions as Unsafe.isBigEndian and Unsafe.wordSize. These functions are inlined by the compiler, which allows one to expect tests of the form if Unsafe.isBigEndian() to be evaluated at compile time. These primops are also available to user code via the Unsafe structure.

John Reppy

Improved the Unsafe.Real64.fromBits implementation to use a cast and a reference (instead of pack/unpack from a byte array).

John Reppy

Fixed Issue #284 (Incorrect printing of source code in error message).

Dave MacQueen

The implementations of PackWord64Little.update and PackWord64Big.update were swapped on 64-bit platforms (resulting in byte-order reversal). These have been fixed.

John Reppy

For various reasons, the LLVM backend has to resolve relocation symbols as part of the process of generating the final object code to the heap. While LLVM provides a generic API for working with object files, patching relocation information is necessarily dependent on both the architecture and object-file format. For the ELF format, there were several complications that the original implementation did not handle (e.g., relocation information is stored in a separate section from the section that it is applied to). The handling of object-files, sections, and relocation records has been rewritten to handle the ELF file format. These changes fix issues #233 (Installation of SML/NJ 2021.1 fails on Ubuntu 20.04) and #272 (Unable to build LLVM when running build.sh).

John Reppy

Fix bug in new-literals.sml, where the integer value 2³¹ was being stored as a 32-bit signed integer in the literal table, instead of as a 64-bit signed integer. This change fixes Legacy Issue #287 (The word literal 0wx80000000 is incorrectly converted to 0wx7FFFFFFF80000000).

John Reppy

Add contraction rule for when two calls to SETHDLR appear in sequence. This situation arises when the body of a handler is optimized away.

John Reppy

Port fix for legacy bug #278 (CharBuffer.addSlice does not properly handle starting offsets).

John Reppy

Port fixes for Slice all combinators from legacy branch (see pull request 264).

John Reppy

Fixing some issues with building a macOS package. The postinstall/postupgrade scripts needed to be updated to use the build.sh script and the build.sh script needed a fix so that it can build the documentation even when there is not an installation of SML/NJ present.

John Reppy

Added system/iter-make script to iterate the compilation of the compiler. This script replaces the old fixpt script and is necessary when changing the version number of the system.

John Reppy

The change log file (HISTORY.txt) has been split into two files; one covering the period before 2015 and one covering changes since then.

John Reppy

The source repository has been migrated to GitHub. With this migration, we have substantially reorganized the source tree and build scripts.

The base directory has been eliminated; most of its components (cm, compiler, runtime and system) have been lifted to the top-level of the source tree. The other top-level directories are doc, libraries, llvm, smlnj-lib, and tools. The libraries and tools directories hold most of the non-core components of the system, such as cml, ml-yacc, etc.

The config/install.sh script has been replaced by the build.sh script. The build process is simplified because the only component that is not in the git repository is the boot files. We have also removed the deprecated support for 32-bit systems from the various build scripts.

John Reppy

Fix for MSI installer for SMLNJ 110.99.2 reports as version 0.0.0.0.

John Reppy

Implemented Basis Library proposal 2021-001 (Add getWindowSz function to Posix.TTY structure).

John Reppy

Implemented Basis Library proposal 2022-001 (Add tau to MATH signature).

John Reppy

Fix for ml-build fails on Windows with error.

John Reppy

Fix for makeml and installml scripts do not like locations with spaces.

John Reppy

Fix for Last branch of case expression omitted by PPAst.ppAst.

Dave MacQueen

Fix for Pretty printing of Absyn in error message does not respect fixity.

Dave MacQueen

Fix for Unable to interrupt execution by using SIGINT.

John Reppy

Fixed some interfaces that did not agree with the SML Basis Library specification. Bugs #318 (IEEEReal.decimal_approx does not match the Basis Library) and #319 (Type of Real.fromDecimal does not match the Basis Library).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #316 (Real.fromManExp does not return expected value if man = 0.0).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #317 (Conversion from string to real does not accept non-finite values).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #314 (IEEEReal.float_class does not match the Basis Library). For some reason, the NAN constructor took an argument in our implementation. This code was probably an early design of the API that was changed in the Basis Library specification, but not in our code.

John Reppy

Fixed a pretty printing issue that arises when printing nested structure definitions. For example, opening the OS structure in the REPL, would result in an extra newline between the colon and the sig keyword. This behavior is not present in the legacy version.

John Reppy

Adding support for generating a SIG_GC signal when there is a garbage collection. I have also added a function

to the SMLofNJ.Internals.GC structure that allows one to specify the threshold for generating a signal. The default is 1, which means that for any major collection a signal is generated. Setting the threshold to 0 means that minor collections also generate signals, while setting the value to something greater than 1 will filter out collections of younger generations. Collections that happen while a sigGC handler is running are ignored, which should not be an issue for thresholds of 1 or greater.

These changes fix bugs #65 (Garbage collection does not trigger sigGC) and #291 (Signals are not delivered for corresponding events).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #290 (Incorrect pattern matching for exceptons). The fix involves changes to FLINT/opt/lcontract.sml (function swiInfo) and FLINT/opt/fcontract.sml (function fcSwitch). The contraction of a SWITCH with an constructor as subject is suppressed when the constructor is an exception constructor, because for exceptions comparison using the conrep field is inaccurate when the constructor is defined by an exception identity declaration (e.g., exception B = A).

Dave MacQueen

Fixed bug #314 (IEEEReal.setRoundingMode is a no-op on Linux).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #312 (CM.make is unable to handle filenames that contain a backslash). We have changed the semantics of paths given to the functions in the CM structure to be interpreted using the native pathname syntax (instead of CM's generic syntax).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #284 (Compiler bug: Contract: UsageMap on 132). The problem was the the CPSTrans.cpstrans function was generating code for loading spilled parameters in reverse order. In addition to fixing the bug, added some detailed documentation of the code.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #310 (Error when REPL tries to print value of type Posix.FileSys.ST.stat).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #306 (Word8VectorSlice: mapping a subslice produces wrong result or crashes SML/NJ).

John Reppy

Fix a module compilation performance bug by removing packStr and packFct from Elaborator/modules/sigmatch.sml (reducing the size of that file by about 25%), and removing the call of packStr (in function constrStr) in Elaborator/elaborate/elabmod.sml, replacing it with a call to Instantiate.instAbstr. Goodbye at last to packStr!

Dave MacQueen

Switched over to the LLVM version of the compiler. Doing so has two major consequences:

Fixed a bug in the way that non-printable char values were being printed in the REPL.

John Reppy

Remove last traces of the lambda splitting support from CM.

John Reppy

Changed the Binfile structure (and BINFILE signature) to support both the old binfile format and a new format (both formats are documented in the dev-notes/binfile.adoc file). We are stiull using the old format, but will be switching to the new format soon. The new format has a more structured header and removes the vestigial support for the FLINT lambda pickles.

The new header format includes a proper version number, which should make migrating to new binfile formats easier.

John Reppy

Committed changes to fix bug #281 (Redundant error messages for when a constructor name is misspelled). Revision r7357.

Committed a massive set of changes from "merge/base" working directory that contained manually merged changes from "newmc" into a fresh checkout of the trunk. Base version of the trunk was r7349, which was tagged to produce $smlnj/sml/tags/pre-merge. The merged trunk version is r7352.

The changes include:

David MacQueen

Changed the binfile representation to remove the pickling of the FLINT intermediate representation. The purpose of this mechanism was to support cross-module inlining, but it has not be enabled for many years. Removing it is the first step toward migrating the pickling infrastructure to use ASDL.

John Reppy

Changed the way that versions are identified to allow a version suffix (e.g., "-rc1" for "release candidate 1"). I removed the bump-release mechanism, which might has served a similar purpose, but was restricted to integer suffixes and has not been used in recent memory. Also changed the SMLNJVersion structure, which is generated by the versiontool. The new interface supports the version suffix and includes both a build date and a release date in the version information record.

John Reppy

Fix a benign bug where the size of a floating-point spill record was twice as large as necessary on 64-bit systems.

John Reppy

Split out the Real.toLargeInt implementation into target-word-size versions (the Real64ToIntInf module). For 64-bit targets, the new version uses the bit representation of the real number to compute the result. The 32-bit version is the old code that uses floating-point operations. This change fixes bug #279 (Real.toLargeInt returns zero for anything in range [-512,512]).

John Reppy

In the translation from Absyn to PLambda, there was a function (inlops) that was used to build the primop and type data structures for numeric types. This function was being called for every primitive operator, even though its results only depended on the numeric type. I added a hash table to cache the results indexed numeric kind. This change speeds up the compiler by about 3% (e.g., compiling the compiler went from 58s to 55s on a MacBookPro with a 2.4GHz Intel i9 processor).

John Reppy

Changed the AMD64 frame layout to include a word to hold the Overflow exception. This value is used by the LLVM backend to generate the exception for checked arithmetic operations.

John Reppy

Added support for running SML/NJ on M1 Macs via the Rosetta2 emulator. The change is to identify the arm processor as amd64 in the config/_arch-n-opsys script. Note that while the system basically seems to work okay under rosetta, trying to run the makeml command after having compiled the complier caused a crash.

John Reppy

Some minor restructuring of the logic in the generic installer.

John Reppy

Fixed a bug with how FLINT numeric types were being translated to CPS types. Specifically, types that were smaller than the default integer size (e.g., word8) should have been marked as having a tagged representation.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #280 (110.99 config/install.sh -64 fails on macOS 10.15.7). I was unable to reproduce this problem, but after some investigation, it appears that the problem was inconsistent build tools being picked up from the user’s path. To protect against this issue, I made the paths to the ar and ranlib tools absolute.

John Reppy

Fixed a serious performance bug in the implementation of the CharBuffer and MonoBuffer structures. Essentially, if one did not reserve sufficient space for the contents, it could take quadratic time to fill the buffer. We now grow the buffer by a factor of 1.5 of its current size, with an upper bound on the extra growth of 256K.

John Reppy

Changed the layout of the SML stack frame on the AMD64 architecture to make it compatible with the way that LLVM spills registers. Essentially, this just involved swapping the order of the swap area and the ML stuff. We took this opportunity, however, to localize up the representation of this information in the compiler.

John Reppy

Changed the format of the "magic string" in the header of binfiles. The new format is "arch-version", where the architecture name is limited to at most seven bytes and the version is limited to at most eight bytes. The string is padded with spaces to a total length of 16 bytes.

John Reppy

Various pretty-printer bug fixes:

John Reppy

Fixed bug #254 (Real.fromLargeInt produces negative results). The problem was because the digit size for IntInf.int is only one bit smaller than the default int and the scaling factor rbase was being computed using the InlineT.Real64.from_int function (so rbase ends up being negative). Thus it would return incorrect results whenever the IntInf representation involved more than one digit. This is a bug on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. The fix was to switch to using InlineT.Real64.from_int{32,64} to convert rbase and digits to real values.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #267 (Returns an incorrect result for a calculation on Position.int for 32-bit mode). The problem was that on 32-bit machines, 64-bit division is implemented by the IntInf module with the result then being converted to 64-bits. The conversion used did not test for overflow in the result.

John Reppy

Changed the semantics of the spans returned by ml-ulex so that the second component of a span is the position of the rightmost character in the token (instead of the character following the token). Specifically, the span \((p_1, p_2)\) specifies the \(p_2 - p_1 + 1\) characters that start with the character at position \(p_1\) and run to \(p_2\) (inclusive). This change avoids a potential problem when the span of a token ends at the last character in a file (when the input is spread across multiple files).

John Reppy

Simplified the binfile representation by removing the option of having multiple code objects. Many years ago, we would split the code for a compilation unit into multiple independent functions so that the garbage collector could reclaim code that was only executed once (or was not referenced). The actual splitting of the code in the CpsSplitFun functor (CPS/clos/cps-split.sml) was replaced by a dummy implementation at some point, so we have not been generating multiple code objects for some time. Therefore, we have simplified the code generator to assume only one code object and have changed the binfile import/export code to only support a single code object per binfile.

Also made this change to the bootstrap loader (kernel/boot.c).

John Reppy

Reverted some of the pretty printing changes that were made in 110.98 to the 110.97 version (the renaming of PrettyPrintNew to PrettyPrint and the directory reorganizations were unchanged). These changes fix bugs #266 (Pretty printing regression in SML/NJ 110.98), #268 (Polymorphic Type Pretty Printing Regression), and #271 (pretty printer regression for structure binding).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #269 (Word64.fromString causes an Overflow for greater than 2³²-1). This bug was the result of constants from the 32-bit version of the code not getting updated for the 64-bit version. Scanning of both hexadecimal and octal representations of both integers and words were affected.

John Reppy

Added an additional lowering pass for the STREQL primop. This primop is generated to implement pattern matching against string literals. Previously it was unrolled in the MLRISC code generator, but we now do the unrolling in CPS. The reason for this change is that implementing the unrolling in the LLVM code generator would be complicated because of the need to introduce phi nodes in one of the branches.

The unrolling in CPS is somewhat different from before in that we now bake the literal string being tested into the equality tests.

Also changed the representation of the primop to include the string being tested against and removed the STRNEQ primop.

John Reppy

Implemented Basis Library proposal 2020-001 (Addition of Universal module).

John Reppy

Changed the config/install.sh script so that the default size is 64 bits for any machine that reports its machine as "x86_64."

John Reppy

Fixed bug #260 (Perform divide on Position.int crashes with FPE on Linux). The fix required adding SIGFPE as a second source of Overflow exceptions on Linux/amd64 machines.

John Reppy

Fixes for structure and signature pretty printing problems that were introduced in the extensive pretty printer/pretty printing modifications around revision 6291.

Files affected include ElabData/modules/ppmod.sml, ElabData/types/pptype.sml, TopLevel/print/ppdec.sml, and Basics/print/pputil.{sig,sml}.

The pretty printing for modules still seems quite fragile, so there are likely to be more pretty printing problems to be fixed later. In particular, pretty printing of functor and functor signature declarations haven’t been tested.

Dave MacQueen

Added a new lowering pass following CPS optimization, but before closure conversion. This pass includes the previous passes for 64-bit operations on 32-bit matchines and for conversions involving IntInf.int. It also adds lowering for div and mod to native machine division (i.e., quot and rem) and for trapping conversions.

The purpose of this change is to simplify code generation in preparation for migrating to a LLVM-based backend.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #261 (Weird "calc_strictness" message being printed). Rewrote the function ElabUtil.calc_strictness and moved it to TypesUtil.calcStrictness.

Dave MacQueen

The HTMLDev structure in the pretty-printing library has been moved into its own library (pp-extras-lib.cm) and renamed as HTML3Dev. This change removes the dependency of pp-lib.cm on html-lib.cm, which allowed us to remove all mention of html-lib.cm from the compiler CM files.

John Reppy

Completed the removal of the trigonometry operators from the primops. This change also allowed the removal of extension support from the MLRISC code generator for the x86.

John Reppy

Disabled the use of the hardware instructions for the basic trig functions on the x86. Doing so simplifies cross compilation from non x86 hosts and also paves the way to removing the operations from the compiler’s primitive operators.

John Reppy

Improved the CPS contraction phase by adding strength-reduction optimizations to ContractPrim. These include recognizing when multiplications and divisions by powers of 2 can be replaced by shifts. Previously, these sorts of optimizations were provided by MLRISC, but we plan to simplify the CPS IR prior to code generation by replacing div and mod operations with native machine arithmetic, which would prevent MLRISC from making the optimizations.

John Reppy

The MLRISC instruction selector for the x86 and amd64 targets erroneously assumed that the idiv instruction sets the OF (overflow) condition code when dividing the largest negative number by ~1. In fact, such a division operation traps, which is okay, because the runtime system maps the trap to the Overflow exception. Since the check for overflow is unnecessary, it has been removed from the files MLRISC/amd64/mltree/amd64-gen.sml and MLRISC/x86/mltree/x86.sml.

Note that MLRISC's non-trapping signed division operations can actually trap on overflow, but this was true before this change.

John Reppy

Changed the semantics of the --debug command-line option for ml-antlr. Previously this option replaced the actions with a print expression, but that limited its usefulness because of type errors in the generated code. The new behavior is to preserve the existing actions and just add the printing code.

John Reppy

Added a pass to the elaborator that check for variables that are bound, but never referenced. This check can be controlled by the Control.Elab.unusedWarn flag. Unused top-level variables are not reported (unless they are bound in the local part of a local declaration).

The check is currently disabled because of false positives caused by a transformation in the type checker. For example, the following function declaration:

gets represented by the following Absyn:

where the instance of g bound to #2 tmp is unused. This transformation is done by the wrapRECdec function. The unused-variable implementation was influenced by Jacob Van Buren’s patch for Version 110.82.

John Reppy

The LambdaVar.lvar type is represented as an integer; since the earliest days of the compiler this representation has been concrete, which meant that the type system was not able to provide any guarantees that int`s and `lvar`s were not being mixed up. As of this change, `LambdaVar.lvar is now an abstract equality type (internally, it is still and int). Some comments about the changes:

John Reppy

Fixed bug #256 (Ref.exchange incorrect). The original source of the bug was the Basis Library sample code, which has also been fixed.

John Reppy

Changed the printing of tyvars; e.g., an OVLDV tyvar introduced by an occurrence of the overloaded operator "*" that also acquires the equality attribute will be printed as ''Z[OL(*)].

Dave MacQueen

Eliminated AbsDec and ABSdec constructors

Dave MacQueen

File structure reoganization: the top-level compiler/Semant directory was eliminated. Remaining relevant subdirectories were Semant/pickle, which moved to ElabData, and Semant/prim, whose two files, prim-env.sml and primop-bindings.sml moved to the existing ElabData/prim directory. CM files compiler/core.cm and ElabData/elabdata.cm changed accordingly.

Dave MacQueen

Fixed bug #220

Dave MacQueen

Fixed bug #214

Dave MacQueen

Fixed bug #209

Dave MacQueen

Some clean up in the ml-lex/lexgen.sml code. Replaced the one-off implementation of finite maps with the RedBlackMapFn functor from the SML/NJ Library. Also got rid of the uses of polymorphic equality by changing token equality tests to pattern matching.

John Reppy

Turned several functors (ElabModFn, ElabTopFn, SigMatchFn, etc. into structures and removed the redundant functor application files (and the directories) in Semant/elaborate and Semant/modules.

Dave MacQueen

Fixed bugs #195 and #196

Dave MacQueen

Various minor changes related to the heap2exec and heap2asm programs.

John Reppy

Addressed bug #247 (@SMLVersion should report 64/32 bit) by adding a new command-line option (@SMLwordsize) to the .run-sml command script. Specifying this option will cause the the wordsize to be printed (either 32 or 64) and then the program will exit.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #252 (Boyer Benchmark Compile Failure). This crash was caused by a typo in the CPS/main/build-literals.sml code that caused an incorrect opcode to be generated for SAVE/LOAD instructions when the offset was >= 256.

John Reppy

Fixed the calculation of the maximum array/vector length for 64-bit targets. We had been using the calculation for 32-bit targets.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #245 (Lazy data types result in Compiler Bug error). The problem was that a number of symbols (e.g., deref) had been dropped from the _Core structure, but were required to support the lazy (and profiling) features in the compiler. The symbols have been reinstated and a comment has been added to explain why they are being included.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #244 (Compiler bug: PPObj: ppFields in ppval.sml). The code generator was using the wrong length tag for raw64 records on 64-bit machines (twice the length).

John Reppy

Clean up various issues in the configuration/build machinery for asdl. This includes a fix for bug #240 (Non-default 64-bit installation build failure)

John Reppy

Fix bug #239 (Date.toTime is incorrect (by a factor of 10E9)). Thanks to Johannes 5 Joemann for both the report and fix.

John Reppy

Bug fix for a problem where ^C (and other signals might be ignored). The fix is to use word-sized fields in the VProc state vector so that the word-sized move operations in the assembly code do not clobber adjacent fields.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #234 (Converting NaN to a string causes an infinite loop on 64-bit machines). The problem was in MLRISC/amd64/mltree/amd64-gen.sml, which was not generating comparisons that work correctly when the arguments are unordered.

John Reppy

Removed assertion checking from the amd64 runtime makefiles. It has not turned up any errors since 110.94 was released, so we will assume that things are working the way that they should.

John Reppy

Bugfix for bug #237 (heap2exec script fails on 110.95). The fix was provided by Kirill Boltaev.

John Reppy

Changed the default installation size to 64 bits on macOS 10.14 Mojave and later.

John Reppy

Fixed some code rot in the eXene sources (bug #233). With the LargeWord module changing from Word32 to Word64, there were a few places were things broke.

John Reppy

Added support for 64-bit executables on FreeBSD. As part of this effort, we fixed a couple of regressions (makefile issues) for the 32-bit version on FreeBSD that were introduced when the X86.prim.asm file was rewritten. We also switch from BSD signal handling to POSIX signal handling, since that is what we use for most other systems.

John Reppy

Fixed config/install.sh script, which was not passing the size option to the .link-sml, which caused confusion for the "-64" flag. This problem was later reported as bugs #235 and #236.

John Reppy

Many years ago, SML/NJ had a bytecode interpreter, but it was mostly removed from the system a long time ago. There were, however, some remnants of it in the runtime system. These have now been removed.

Having made this change, the distinction between the "target" and "host" architectures is no longer necessary. Therefore, these have been merged into a single architecture property. The effects of this merge are as follows:

John Reppy

Fix for bug #230 (New literals-lifting code does not handle pair of reals).

John Reppy

Simplified the runtime-system build rules for Cygwin.

John Reppy

Created the script config/prepare-win-install.sh, which implements the fetching and unbundling of source and bin files in preparation for a Windows installation.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #229 (Real.fromString errors). This bug was actually two unrelated issues. The problem that Real.toString returns Real.posInf for 0.0e123213213123213123123 has been fixed in the RealScan module (system/basis/Implementation/real-scan.sml). The second bug was a regression introduced in 110.93, where the SIGFPE signal was specified as the result of the into instruction, whereas Linux actually signals SIGSEGV for into. Note that there may be a related issue of BSD systems, where SIGBUS might be the signal, but we need access to a test machine to verify.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #230 (segmentation fault when compiling MLton sources with SML/NJ 64-bit). The problem was that when a large vector was being created, the assembly code did not correctly restore the stack state before trying to call the runtime system to do the allocation.

John Reppy

The runtime now uses MAP_ANON for allocating memory on 64-bit Linux. This change fixes a problem with versions of Linux that do not allow access to /dev/zero (such as on ChromeBooks).

John Reppy

Modified the generic installed (base/system/smlnj/installer/generic-install.sml) to support conditional targets. You can now write tests like

The symbols that can currently be tested for are SIZE_32, SIZE_64, UNIX, and WINDOWS. See the config/targets file for more details.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #227 (CPS contraction is taking an excessive amount of time on word8 basis test).

John Reppy

Modified the CPS contraction phase to optimize the case where a numeric conversion is applied to a constant value.

John Reppy

Modified the Unix installer script (base/system/smlnj/installer/nix-install.sml) to pass a size argument to the configuration script. This argument is used by the ASDL configuration.

John Reppy

Overhauled the installation script (config/install.sh) and various script templates (e.g., config/_run-sml) to allow setting the default size. The config/install.sh script now supports the following arguments:

It is possible to install both versions in the same location by running the install.sh script twice. For example, the commands

will install both versions with the 64-bit version as default. One would then use the command sml -32 to run the 32-bit version of the system. Note that the default version must be installed second.

John Reppy

Added support for the -64 flag to the fixpt script in base/system.

John Reppy

Added support for the -64 flag to the cmb-make script in base/system.

John Reppy

Renamed the REAL representation constructor to Raw64, which matches what is going on in the runtime system. Also renamed the toReal function to toReal64.

John Reppy

Updated the SMLofNJ.SysInfo structure by removing constructors from the oskind datatype that correspond to obsolete systems. Also added a getHostSize function that returns the host architecture’s native word size in bits (e.g., 32 or 64).

John Reppy

Added the -64 flag to the testml script in base/system and to the .run-sml script. Thus, one will be able to specify the 32-bit version of SML/NJ using the command sml -32 and the 64-bit version using the command sml -64. Currently, 32-bits is the default, since the 64-bit system is unstable.

John Reppy

Removed obsolete operating systems from the SMLofNJ.SysInfo.os_kind datatype. This change reduces the type to two constructors: UNIX and WIN32. Also added a function getHostSize to the SysInfo structure, which returns the host word size in bits (i.e., either 32 or 64). The word size is now reported in the compiler’s banner message at startup.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #130 (failure to raise Bind exception). Added a function refutable to ElabData/types/typesutil.{sig,sml} and used it to limit type generalization of val bindings in Elaborator/types/typecheck.sml. The fix does not deal properly with refutability of OR patterns, but OR patterns in val bindings is a dubious feature.

This change also fixes bug #188 (Missing warning for nonexhaustive valbind patterns), bug #190 (Unexpected exception in SML/NJ with invalid list pattern match), and #199 (Compiler bug in pretty printing of result).

David MacQueen

Modified the cmb-make script to support passing compiler control flags to the build command. The flags should be specified after the path to sml command (if it is given).

John Reppy

Finished the implementation of the new literal bytecode engine. There is a control flag (Control.CG.newLiterals that allows switching between the old and new bytecodes).

John Reppy

Fix for bug #225 (Math.ln giving erroneous answers on Windows). The problem was an inconsistency in the way the Unix and Microsoft assemblers interpreted the addressing mode for the FLD instruction.

John Reppy

Clean up in the Basis Posix library code (both SML and runtime) to be consistent about when the SysWord.word type is being used to communicate information between SML code and the runtime system.

John Reppy

Add support for specifying a 32 or 64-bit target as command-line option to the .arch-n-opsys and .link-sml scripts. The default size is currently 32-bits, but that will change once 64-bit support is solid.

John Reppy

Generalize code generation for conversions involving tagged integers/words, where the size is not the default integer size. This situation only occurred for Word8.word values on 32-bit targets, but also occurs for 32-bit values on 64-bit targets.

John Reppy

Rewrote the expansion of the INLLSHIFT, INLRSHIFTL, and INLRSHIFT primops (compiler/FLINT/trans/transprim.sml). The expansion process now correctly handles shift operations on types that are smaller than the default tagged-integer size. This change also allows the Word8 shift operations to be inlined.

John Reppy

Fixed a bug in the constant folding of arithmetic-right-shift operations. The sign was not getting extended for words when the most-significant-bit was set.

John Reppy

Fixed a bug in the Real.toManExp function (the exponent was off by one, which meant that the mantissa was two times its expected value). This fix also fixes a problem in Real.toLargeInt, where the function would go into an infinite loop in some cases.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #173 (OS.Process.sleep only works with whole numbers). For systems that have finer-grain sleep function, such as the nanosleep(2) system call, the OS.Process.sleep and Posix.Process.sleep functions now support sub-second granularity.

John Reppy

Restructured the CPS contraction phase to make the fusion of integer/word conversions more uniform. Also fixed a bug where Int32.fromLarge(Word32.toLargeInt 0wxffffffff) would return ~1 instead of raising Overflow. The problem was that TEST(m,n) o COPY(n,p) was getting fused to COPY(m,p) when m = p, instead of TRUNC(m,p).

John Reppy

Int64 comparisons were not always correct, which lead to some positive values being printed as negative numbers (basically when the sign bit of the lower word was set).

John Reppy

Added Unsafe.IntInf structure, which provides access to the internal representation of the IntInf.int type. Note that this representation may change in the future.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #223 (Incremental Build fails on Windows). There was a missing CloseHandle() when getting a file’s timestamp.

John Reppy

Changed base/system/allcross script to use cmb-cross script. Also modified the cmb-cross script to build compressed tar files, when given the -z option, and to clean up intermediate files.

John Reppy

Restructured the amd64 machine-code generation implementation and filled in many of the missing encodings. It should be complete for SML/NJ code generation, but needs more work to support the full set of operations described in the amd64.mdl file.

John Reppy

Some cleanup in the x86 MLRISC backend. Removed the MULB, MULW, and MULL unsigned-multiplication instructions, since they are not binary operations. The MULL instruction is covered by the MULL1 constructor in the multDivOp datatype. The same change was applied to the amd64 backend.

John Reppy

Many changes to the amd64 machine description:

John Reppy

New script for cross compiling to other architectures; the script is still called cmb-make, but now supports target-specific dependencies in the front-end (i.e., representation of numeric types and endianess). The cross compilation scheme was developed by Matthias Blume and then encoded in a script.

John Reppy

The runtime system now builds for the amd64 architecture. Most of the changes relate to the difference between the flat BIBOP on 32-bit platforms and the two-level BIBOP on 64-bit platforms.

John Reppy

Fix bug #224 (Word64.fromLargeInt fails). The problem was an incorrect record kind in CPS/opt/infcnv.sml (it was RK_RECORD instead of RK_RAWBLOCK).

John Reppy

Changed the rep datatype constructor Word32 to Raw (which covers both 32 and 64-bit numbers on 32-bit platforms). We now check the length of the raw object when converting to an concrete numeric type.

John Reppy

Removed the use of runtime-type passing for polymorphic arrays. The effect of this change is that code that uses the Array.array type will be faster when the element type is not real (e.g., sorting an Int32.int array was 1.2 times faster), but slower when the type is real. Use the monomorphic type RealArray.array for best performance on arrays of reals.

Dave MacQueen and John Reppy

We added a new primop, REAL_TO_BITS that casts a floating-point value to the same-size word value. This primop allows the Assembly.logb function to be implemented in SML.

We have also refactored the implementation of the Math structure to share common code across the versions that are specialized for different levels of hardware support.

John Reppy

Rewrote the assembly code for the x86 and AMD64 targets. Previously, there were separate source files for Unix and Windows; these have been replaced by a single common file (one for each architecture). The assyntax.h file has also been replaced by x86-syntax.h, which covers both the x86 and AMD64 on both UNIX and Windows.

The AMD64.prim.asm file now compiles, although there are a few minor issues that will have to be fixed once we have a working code generator. We have also fixed a number of issues in the garbage collector related to the use of the 2-level BIBOP on 64-bit targets.

John Reppy

Some cleanup in the interval-timer code. In keeping with the other time-specific functions, I have switched the runtime-system API to use unsigned 64-bit nanoseconds to specify time values. I have also added an implementation for c-libs/smlnj-runtime/itick.c, which was missing. Lastly, moved the Windows-specific file win32-timers.c from runtime/kernel to runtime/mach-dep.

John Reppy

Added 64-bit implementations of the target-specific Basis Library modules in directory Basis/Implementation/Target64Bit.

John Reppy

Added PackWord64Big and PackWord64Little structures to Basis Library. Note that the implementation of these is target-specific.

John Reppy

Added bigEndian flag to the TARGET signature.

John Reppy

Fixed the Concurrent ML library to use 64-bit positions (both Unix and Windows) versions.

John Reppy

Moved the year offset from SML to the runtime system. This change is necessary because Windows uses 1601 as year 0, whereas UNIX uses 1900. We have also switched to using unsigned 64-bit times in nanoseconds as the interface between the Basis code and runtime system. This change is consistent with the other places where time values are communicated between the runtime and SML code.

John Reppy

Fixed a problem with CM’s symbol filtering (see bug #222).

The problem could manifest itself when a library l2.cm imported two symbols A and B from l1.cm and then exported the same A but a different B (which could have been defined in terms of the imported B). Moreover, for the problem to occur both A and B within l1.cm must have come from the same SML source file.

With the above setup, when running

Various 64-bit porting changes to the Windows implementation of the Basis Library and runtime system:

Implemented Basis Library proposal 2019-001 (Correction to the PRIM_IO signature). This proposal changes the return type of the avail function in a reader to be Position.int option, which is necessary to support large files.

John Reppy

Added primop support (PTR_TO_WORD and WORD_TO_PTR) for the c_pointer type that was added in 110.89. These primops are exposed in the new InlineT.Pointer structure. We define a PointerImp structure that is used inside the Basis implementation and a Unsafe.Pointer structure that is visible to users.

John Reppy

Switched the Position structure to be bound to Int64 and updated the runtime system to use 64-bit integers for file offsets and time values (in nanoseconds). This change fixes bugs #33 (Overflow exception with inputLine function) and #36 (Can’t open very large file).

John Reppy

Added abstract c_pointer type to the primitive types. This type will be used to represent runtime-system pointers (e.g., the HANDLE values in the Windows implementation).

John Reppy

Removed makefiles and code for architectures and operating systems that are no longer supported (e.g., the DEC Alpha and HPPA architectures).

John Reppy

Switched the FixedInt and LargeWord structure aliases to be 64-bits (i.e., FixedInt is now bound to Int64 and LargeWord is bound to Word64).

John Reppy

We are now assuming that we have at least C99 support (for practical purposes, this assumption is even true on Windows). With this assumption, the allocation of small objects in the runtime has been switched from macros to inline functions (see runtime/include/ml-objects.h). This change allows a graceful handling of 32-bit integers, which are heap allocated on 32-bit machines, but tagged on 64-bit machines.

John Reppy

Fixed various bugs in the implementation of the Word64 operations. The addition and subtraction operators were using arithmetic right shifts, instead of logical right shifts. Also, the translation of 64-bit shift operations was incorrect because of a typo in the variable names.

John Reppy

Created a simplified version of the MLRiscGen functor. This version of the functor, which is in the file CodeGen/main/mlrisc-gen-fn.sml does not include the memory disambiguation and GC types code. Since the old version (CodeGen/main/mlriscGen.sml) did not use these features by default, there should be no difference in the quality of the generated code.

The purpose of this change is to remove unused code that has 32-bit dependencies.

John Reppy

Added contraction for unsigned REM and NEG operations in CPS/opt/contract-prim.sml.

John Reppy

Moved the compiler/DEVNOTES directory to the dev-notes tree and renamed it old-compiler-notes.

John Reppy

Added 64-bit versions of NumFormat and NumScan. We use the 32-bit version for numbers of 32-bits or less and the 64-bit versions for numbers with up to 64 bits. Thus, on 32-bit machines, the default int and word types use NumFormat32 and NumScan32, while on 64-bit machines they use NumFormat64 and NumScan64. This change also required splitting out some common code into a ScanUtil structure and also splitting out the scanning of real numbers into the ScanReal structure (formatting of reals was already in its own structure).

John Reppy

Reimplemented the 64-bit int and word types to put them on a (mostly) equal footing with the other precisions. In this new implementation, the basic types int64 and word64 are now PRIMITIVE (instead of being ABSTRACT type represented by pairs of boxed 32-bit words). Arithmetic and comparison operations on these types are represented as primops and are preserved as such up to just before closure conversion. At that point, the new Num64Cnv structure (compiler/CPS/opt/numcnv.sml) is used to expand 64-bit operations and constants into 32-bit operations. Most of the 64-bit primops are inline expanded, but multiplication and division operations are converted to calls to library code from the CoreInt64 and CoreWord64 modules (system/smlnj/init).

Because the type are primitive, we were able to change the runtime representation to use packed records (RK_RAWBLOCK) to represent them, which saves space and should also help with performance.

See the dev-notes/num64.md file for more details about the implementation.

John Reppy

Reorganized the Basis Library source files (system/Basis) to isolate dependences on target word size.

In the Basis/Implementation directory, I created subdirectories (e.g., Target32Bit) to hold implementations that are specific to the target. These directories include a bind-structs.sml file that replaces the many bind-*.sml files in Basis/Implementation.

In the Basis/Exports directory, I replaced the many individual files (each with a single module renaming) with bind-common.sml (for target-independent bindings) and a target-specific file (either bind-target-32-bit.sml or bind-target-64-bit.sml).

John Reppy

Some of the CPS optimization modules (Expand and EtaSplit were written as functors over the machine spec, when, in fact, they never reference their functor argument. Therefore, they have been converted to structures.

John Reppy

We now use the InlineT.identity primop for Fn.id, so the compiler can optimize it.

John Reppy

Fixed pretty-printing regression in 110.87; value of char type were missing their enclosing quotes.

John Reppy

Made the Char.chr operator inline (a primop was added to support this change in 110.86).

John Reppy

Major renaming of the primitive operators in the Inline structure (as described in dev-notes/primop-list.md). Also cleaned up the Basis Library implementation to remove most (but not all) 32-bit dependencies.

John Reppy

Added cases to the top-level pretty printer to handle the new basic types that were added in 110.86 (e.g., word8vector and chararray). Also changed the way that primitive types are handled to use a table keyed by tycons, instead of a sequence of nested conditionals.

John Reppy

Added word8vector and chararray to the primitive types that the compiler knows about. These will be used in the rewriting of the InlineT structure.

John Reppy

Replaced the Primop.primop constructors NUMSUBSCRIPT and NUMUPDATE with

`sml | NUMSUBSCRIPT of numkind | NUMSUBSCRIPTV of numkind | NUMUPDATE of numkind | INLNUMSUBSCRIPT of numkind | INLNUMSUBSCRIPTV of numkind | INLNUMUPDATE of numkind `

This design matches the naming conventions for polymorphic subscripting and updating.

John Reppy

Added Primop.INLCHR to implement Char.chr as an inline function. This change also required moving the definition of the Chr exception to the Core module so that it is accessible to the translate phase. The inline version of Char.chr will be enabled in the 110.87 release (we need the internal primop before we can use it).

John Reppy

Major overhaul of the representation of primitive operators (both in the Primop and CPS.P structures). The primitive arithmetic and comparison operations are now defined in the ArithOps structure (ElabData/prim/arithops.sml). There are three datatypes defined in this module

These types are used in both the Primop and CPS.P modules, which makes the translation between representations more direct.

Some details:

John Reppy

Removed unused record kind constructors (RK_SPILL, RK_EXN, and RK_BLOCK) from CPS.record_kind datatype. Also renamed RK_I32BLOCK to RK_RAWBLOCK and RK_FBLOCK to RK_RAW64BLOCK. Various other renamings to remove 32-bit assumptions.

John Reppy

Renamed DTAG_raw32 to DTAG_raw, since the semantics on 64-bit systems will be to require word-size aligned raw data. Also renamed ML_AllocRaw32 to ML_AllocRaw and ML_ShrinkRaw32 to ML_ShrinkRaw for similar reasons.

John Reppy

Removed unused flags from the Control structure; most of these came from Control.CG, where roughly 20 out of 60 flags were no longer used.

John Reppy

Split the contraction of primitive operators out of the Contract structure into its own ContractPrim structure.

John Reppy

Split the translation of primops to PLambda out into its own file (compiler/FLINT/trans/transprim.sml).

John Reppy

Fixed regression: Word32.toInt 0wx8002DE32; would return 187954 instead of raising Overflow. The problem was a mistake in the way that the overflow trap was being generated in MLRiscGen.

John Reppy

Some minor primop cleanup.

John Reppy

Improvements to the core 64-bit int and word modules in system/smlnj/init. Replaced Int64.`, `Int64.-`, `Word64., and Word64. with versions from *Hacker’s Delight that use fewer conditional branches. Also replaced the relational operators (<, ⇐, etc) with more direct implementations.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #213 (Int32.div raises Div instead of Overflow when dividing minInt by ~1). Since the compiler generates an explicit test for division by zero, we know that the only arithmetic traps must be caused by other operations. Therefore, we can just map any arithmetic trap to Overflow.

Also removed the old SPARC assembly code for multiplication and division. The code generator always uses the native hardware instructions, so the assembly code is not needed.

John Reppy

Yet another attempt to get the implementation of use in the REPL working in a sensible way.

With these changes, use should behave as follows. If an invocation of use encounters a compilation error (either in the initial file or in a nested invocation of use), then the compiler error message will be printed and the call to use will immediately return (). If an invocation of use raises an exception during execution of the compiled code (either in the initial file or in a nested invocation of use), then the exception will be reported at the top-level. Any change to the global state or environment that occurs before an error is encountered, will not be rolled back.

Files specified as command-line arguments to the sml command will be treated as if use was invoked on them. If there is an error, then the error will be reported and the sml command will terminate with a non-zero exit status (at least on Unix).

This change fixes bugs #193, #217, and #219. There is a connection between this change and #183, which was fixed in Version 110.82.

John Reppy

Change to the CPS primops: moved the F_SGN operator (which is unary) from the fcmp datatype to the branch datatype (and renamed it FSGN).

John Reppy

Finished conversion of the CPS IR to a form that is compatible with ASDL. Basically, this involved converting the datatype constructor names to upper-case identifiers.

These changes are a step in the plan to eventually switch to an LLVM-based code generator that will be given pickled CPS code as its input.

John Reppy

Starting to migrate the CPS IR toward the ASDL version. Changed the names of the CPS.P.arith and CPS.P.cmpop constructors to be upper-case alpha IDs (many of them were symbolic identifiers). Also split out the various utility functions into the new CPSUtil module (CPS/cps/cps-util.sml). Lastly, moved the literals.sml file from FLINT/main to CPS/main (where it belongs).

Note that the CPS.P.arithop datatype is now identical to the Primop.arithop datatype

John Reppy

Reorganized the backend of the compiler by moving the CPS-related code into its own directory tree (Compiler/CPS) and replacing the FLINTComp functor with the FLINTOpt structure and the CPSCompFn functor. The conversion from FLINT to CPS is part of the CPSCompFn functor, which takes the program representation all the way from FLINT to machine code segments.

John Reppy

Modified config/install.sh to look for a pre-Mojave SDK when trying to install on macOS 10.14 Mojave.

John Reppy

Updated runtime/objs/cygwin.def so that the runtime system will build on 32-bit Cygwin. Also updated installation script to suggest using the 32-bit version of Cygwin when a user tries to install it on Cygwin64.

John Reppy

Xcode 10.1, which is Apple’s development environment for macOS 10.14 Mojave, does not include the libraries needed to build 32-bit executables, such as the SML/NJ runtime, although 32-bit programs will still run.

To support building on Mojave, I added a new Makefile (mk.x86-darwin18) for the runtime system and modified the config/install.sh script to use this makefile when necessary. This new makefile expects that the MacOSX10.13.sdk directory from Xcode 9 has been copied into the Xcode 10 SDKs directory. Note that updating Xcode from the AppStore will likely remove the 10.13 SDK, so you should keep a copy in a safe place.

The Xcode SDKs live in Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs under the Developer directory. One can determine the path to the current developer directory using the command

John Reppy

Removed several unsupported primitive operators from the compiler. In the CPS IR, these were free, acclink, setpseudo, setmark, and getpseudo. The pseudo-register operations were not supported in the code generator, while the others were no-ops. The corresponding operators GETPSEUDO, SETPSEUDO, SETMARK, and DISPOSE were removed from ElabData/prim/primop.sml and their bindings were removed from Semant/prim/primop-bindings.sml and the InlineT and Unsafe structures.

The AllocProf module in the compiler was also disabled, since it relied on the pseudo registers for recording profile information at runtime. Furthermore, uses of the acclink primitive operation in FLINT/cps/closure.sml when static profiling is enabled were removed.

These changes were committed as revision 4886.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #216 (run-time system fatal error with large top-level value). The problem was in the code for building literals.

John Reppy

Change CPS operators for wrapping/unwrapping integer and float values to be word-size flexible. We now use a single wrap (and unwrap) operator that is parameterized by a numkind value. We also changed the wrap/unwrap operators to box/unbox. The mapping from old operators to new ones is as follows:

John Reppy

Further cleanup for 64BIT in function atomeq in PEqual. (base/compiler/FLINT/trans/pequal.sml). Added numKind, intEqTy, and uintEqTy functions. The numKind function should be extended once int64 and word64 are treated as primitive types in the compiler.

Dave MacQueen

Fixed 64BIT issue in module MatchComp (base/compiler/FLINT/trans/matchcomp.sml). Added int64Ty and word64Ty cases to function numCon.

Dave MacQueen

Fixed 64BIT issue in module Equal (base/compiler/FLINT/reps/equal.sml). Exports just one function: equal_branch, which is called once in reps/wrapping.sml to type-specialize branches on calls to POLYEQUAL.

Dave MacQueen

The CPS optimizer had a mechanism for checking the CPS against the FLINT types, which required maintaining a mapping from lvars to their FLINT types. This code has long since bit-rotted and cannot even handle a simple expression like 1+2. Therefore, I’ve removed the mapping (a hash table) from the CPS optimizer and the vestigial code that modified it in the various CPS optimization passes.

John Reppy

Modified the InfCnv (now named IntInfCnv) structure to remove 32-bit dependencies.

John Reppy

Modified Pequal (in base/compiler/FLINT/trans/pequal.sml) and Translate (in base/compiler/FLINT/trans/translate.sml) to remove 32-bit dependencies. though further changes will be required to properly handle int64 and word64 types when defaultIntSz = 64.

Dave MacQueen

Reimplemented the Switch module (int base/compiler/FLINT/cps). The new implementation follows the same basic design as before, but the code is better organized and documented, and it now uses the concrete CPS representations, instead of being parameterized over an abstraction of them. It also now uses binary search for boxed (e.g., Int32.int) switches.

John Reppy

Reimplemented the array/vector-slice modules to use a (base, start, length) representation (as does Substring in system/smlnj/init/substring.sml). Also fixed a bug in the slice findi functions, where the index being passed to the predicate function was not adjusted to be slice-relative.

John Reppy

Implemented Basis Library proposal 2018-002 (Additional slice operations).

John Reppy

Improved implementation of CharVectorSlice.map and CharVectorSlice.mapi to not build intermediate list of results.

John Reppy

A beta-release of ASDL library and asdlgen tool have been added to the system. This version of the tool implements SML support, but the C++ support is not complete. There is a CM tool for ASDL, which recognizes the .asdl file suffix.

John Reppy

Two changes to the installer (base/base/system/smlnj/installer):

John Reppy

Added RENAME extension style to CM tool support. This extension style allows arbitrary file names to be generated from the base name.

John Reppy

Fixed a bug in the implementation of monomorphic buffers: the functions CharBuffer.add1 and Word8Buffer.add1 had an incorrect length test.

John Reppy

Fixed a compiler bug (arg ty lists wrong length) in unifyTy that could occur when one of the type constructors is the ERRORtyc. This bug occurs because the ERRORtyc is equal to any other type constructor, which (incorrectly) implies that the number of type arguments should be equal.

John Reppy

Fixed #206 (Parsing of explicit type variables and val rec is broken). This bug was also bug number 1261 in the old bugs list.

John Reppy

Fixed minor bug in Date.toString (missing leading "0" for day of month). This issue was bug number 1444 in the old bugs list.

John Reppy

Cleaned up match compiler code (FLINT/trans/matchcomp.sml) and added typing and function comments. Added debugging and printing infrastructure, including new FLINT/trans/mcprint.sml file, and new Control.MC.debugging flag.

Dave MacQueen

Fixed parser to allow parentheses around val rec patterns.

John Reppy

Fixed the scanner to produce the correct error message for bad escape sequences in string literals.

John Reppy

Fixed old bug number 1383: Char.toCString #"\000" returned "\\0", instead of "\\000", which caused String.toCString to produce invalid results.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #201 (The AMD64.cm library is missing).

John Reppy

Added MONO_BUFFER signature, with instances CharBuffer and Word8Buffer, to Basis implementation ( Basis Library Proposal 2018-001).

John Reppy

Fix a bug where “0w” was being accepted as a prefix for a hexidecimal word value in Word.fromString/scan (ignoring case, only “0x” and “0wx” are valid prefixes). This change fixes bug number 1375 from the old bugs list.

John Reppy

Fixed a bug in the parsing of bindings involving the op keyword. The parser was more restrictive than the definition. This change fixes bug number 1370 from the old bugs list.

John Reppy

The lexer gave an unmatched close comment error on "*)", when it should have scanned it as the tokens "*" ")". This change fixes bug number 330 in the old bugs list.

Note: there is some ambiguity as to what the correct behavior should be here. The Definition of Standard ML (1997) only says that unmatched open comments should be signalled as errors, but the Commentary on the Definition of Standard ML (1991) says otherwise in Appendix D. SML/NJ started signalling an error in version 0.71, but we choose to revert to accepting this sequence, to match the 1997 Definition (and the behavior of other systems).

John Reppy

The sameSign function returned incorrect results in the Int31 and Int32 modules.

John Reppy

Fixed various minor parsing and scanning issues:

John Reppy

Completed overhaul of the way that int/word literals are handled in the compiler. We now use IntInf.int to represent the values in all IRs. This change also results in better CPS contraction, since we now perform constant folding for both signed and unsigned values at all sizes. We were also able to get rid of the tricky code that worries about large tagged integer values that might cause overflow during code generation.

John Reppy

Improved the reporting of errors involving literal values. We now use the original source text when describing the value in the error message.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #191 (Compiler crash when handling large reals). We now issue a warning for real literals that will round to zero and an error for real literals that are too large to represent. There still needs to be done some work to support sub-normal literal values (these are currently rounded to zero).

John Reppy

Changed the representation of real literals from strings to RealLit.t.

John Reppy

Removed real patterns from Absyn and FLINT, since they are not allowed by SML'93 and were not present in the AST representation.

John Reppy

Fix for bug #194 (Real.fromString overflows or hangs). There were two issues here. First, the Overflow exception was being raised when scanning large exponents, but it was not being handled by the scanning code. The second issue was that the scaling loop for large exponents did not immediately terminate once infinity (or zero) was reached, so it could take a long time.

John Reppy

Moved the Version-1 literal building code into gc/old-literals.c. This file can be removed once the compiler generates the Version-2 literal bytecode.

John Reppy

Moved the check for whether a int or word literal is in range for its type from the absyn→plambda translation to the overload resolver (compiler/Elaborator/types/overload.sml).

John Reppy

Part 1 of an overhaul of the way that the compiler treats int/word literals. The end goal is to use IntInf.int to represent literals throughout all phases of the compiler. In this step, we changed the representation of literals in the Absyn representation (earlier representations already used IntInf.int).

John Reppy

Fixed unnumbered bug in IntInf.mod and IntInf.rem functions, where the Div exception was not getting raised when both arguments are 0.

John Reppy

Various bits of cleanup in the handling of primitive operations, such as removing the ptnum mechanism for translating from Absyn to FLINT.

David MacQueen

Added Target module, which specifies the properties of the target (e.g., the size in bits of the default int type). Reworked the generation of the InlineT structure to be target specific.

John Reppy

Removed FLINT primops (and their CPS counterparts) that are not in the InlineT structure and, thus, are never used by the compiler.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #123 (missing nonexhaustive bind warning). The mkVBs function in FLINT/trans/translate.sml was adding a redundant default rule by calling ElabUtil.completeMatch after a default rule had already been explicitly added to the match for let bindings.

David MacQueen

Fixed bug #183 (status code returned by sml REPL). This fix restores the version 110.79 behavior of having sml foo.sml exit with a non-zero status when there is a type-checking error in foo.sml. It also cleans up the error messages associated with use when there is a syntax error.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #185 (Bring command line help text into parity with man page). Added missing options (@SMLversion and @SMLsuffix) to the help message that is printed for the command “sml -h”. Also adjusted the order of options in the help message, and in the man page, so that the orders match.

John Reppy

Changed the way that we test for allocation-space addresses in minor GCs. Instead of using the BIBOP, we now do a pointer range test. On 32-bit systems, this change results in a small (~0.13%) performance boost, but we expect a bigger impact on 64-bit hardware, where the cost of BIBOP probes will be higher and there are more registers available to hold the nursery bounds.

John Reppy

Fixed some issues in build-literals.c. These were mostly false positives in the assertions, but there was also a bug in the way that the available space was tracked that could conceivably result in a crash (but was very unlikely).

John Reppy

Updated _arch-n-os script to recognize macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) as a valid target.

John Reppy

Fixed a bug in the way that JSON string values were being printed. The code previously assumed that C-style escaping will work, but that is not true for "\'" (as well as for control and non-ASCII characters). The new implementation assumes that the string value is UTF-8 and uses the "\\u" escape sequences for characters outside the JSON escapes and printable ASCII characters.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #129 (Symbolic identifiers are allowed as strids).

Dave MacQueen

Fixed bug #179 (ml-ulex writing debug messages to stdOut). Both ml-ulex and ml-antlr now direct their debug and status messages to stdErr (instead of stdOut).

John Reppy

Linux distributions are starting to require that the stack be marked as non-executable in applications. Because the runtime system includes assembly code, this marking was not happening. We’ve added .section directives to the PPC.prim.asm and X86.prim.asm files as per https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/GNU_stack_quickstart#Patching. Thanks to Daniel Moerner for reporting this issue and for providing a pointer to the fix.

John Reppy

Added --debug command-line option to ml-antlr. This flag causes <b>ml-antlr</b> to generate debug actions that print the left-hand-side non-terminal of the production.

John Reppy

Working on 64-bit support. Changes include making code generation dependent on the target word size and abstracting over the BIBOP representation in the runtime system.

John Reppy

Further cleanup of the separation of FLINT from the front-end. Eliminated all references to ModulePropLists (module-plists.sml) in the front end and in pickling, and moved module-plists from Semant/modules to FLINT/trans. ModulePropLists is now only used in FLINT/trans/translate.sml.

Revision: 4314

Files changed:

Dave MacQueen

Eliminated dependency of PlambdaType from the front end by adding a type TKind.tkind which is a simplified standin for PlambdaType.tkind for use during elaboration. TKind.tkind values are translated on demand to PlambdaType.tkind in trans/transtypes.sml. Types still has a tycpath type but it is defined using TKind.tkind now. The new structure SigPropList replaces ModulePropLists (Semant/modules/module-plists.sml) for use in instantiate.sml. Instantiate is now defined directly as a structure so the functor application in Semant/modules/instantiate.sml no longer exists.

Files changed:

Dave MacQueen

Added support for Successor ML record-expression-punning syntax. For example, one can now define a function f as

which is equivalent to the definition

John Reppy

Fixed a bug in the parser. Asterix (*) was not allowed as a record label when using the record-pattern-punning syntax.

John Reppy

Added support for do exp Successor ML syntax.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #153 (Enabling Successor ML features is delayed). We now use a function Control.setSuccML to switch to/from Successor ML mode in the REPL. The function resets the parser, so the next input will be correctly parsed. The Control.succML flag is no longer visibile in the REPL.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #149 (Datatype replication exposes hidden constructors). Added boolean field stripped to DATATYPE variant of tyckind in compiler/ElabData/types/types.sml with default value false. stripped is set to true when a datatype is matched with a simple type spec in signature matching, and datatypes with stripped set to true are disallowed in datatype replications.

Files changed:

Dave MacQueen

Added %tokentype directive to ml-antlr; this directive allows users to specify the token datatype externally, which is necessary in order to share a lexer with two different ml-antlr parsers.

John Reppy

Change the interface to AMD64Gen in MLRISC; the signBit and negateSignBit callbacks now return an MLTree.rexp (instead of a label).

John Reppy

Fixed #151 (Error installing from source on Mac OS X). The fix involves both changes to the config/install.sh script and the mk.x86-darwin makefile. With this fix, we include the SDK argument to the /usr/bin/as only when the OS version is 10.10 (Yosemite) or later.

John Reppy

Added the proposed unzipMap, unzipMapi, find, and findi functions to the ListPair module.

John Reppy

Added the proposed mapLeft, mapRight, appLeft, and appRight functions to the Either module.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #145 (Internal exception occurs on bogus annotation instead of typechecking diagnostic). Added missing OVLD_UB case in function failMessage in compiler/Elaborator/types/unify.sml.

Dave MacQueen

Fixed bug #166 (Can’t install SML/NJ in directories containing spaces). Thanks to Eugene Sharygin for the patch.

John Reppy

Fixed incorrect dividend sign extension before 32-bit divide in amd64 code generator in MLRISC

Mike Rainey

Fixed bug #150 (Add title to batch script).

John Reppy

Implemented the changes for Basis Library Proposal 2016-001. This proposal added the popCount function to the WORD signature.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #156 (sml resumes after SIGSTOP with bogus exception report). The fix is a bit of a hack: I modified the non_bt_hdl function in evalloop.sml to match an IO.Io exception with the appropriate shape for this situation.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #154 (Return code for ml-ulex when there is an error).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #155 (Misleading printing of word literals in error messages).

John Reppy

Fixed a bug in the implementation of the --ml-lex-mode flag for ml-ulex. The \h escape sequence is supposed to map to the character range [\128-\255], but did not.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #147 (Hexadecimal escapes in strings are not supported). We previously did not support Unicode escapes in string literals. We now do so, with non-ascii codepoints being mapped to the UTF-8 encoding with escape values in the range 0..255 being mapped to the corresponding 8-bit character. Values outside that range are flagged as an error.

Revised August 4, 2016

John Reppy

Partial fix for the noisy exception-stack traces on the Error exception. The cases that are handled by this change are applying use to a non-existent file and when there are compilation errors in a program being built by CM.make. What remains to be handled is the situation where CM.make is applied to a non-existent file.

John Reppy

Patched base/compiler/FLINT/clos/closure.sml so that Twelf will build again. Fixes bug #140 (Lookup failure in closure.sml when compiling Twelf).

John Reppy

Added support for a Successor ML tool to CM. This tool allows one to specify that a source file fool.sml is Successor ML source code in the following ways:

John Reppy

Added the directory base/old-basis to support backward-compatible views of the Basis Library. You can use these by replacing the line

with

in your CM files.

New implementation of Date structure in the Basis, which fixes bugs #138 (Incorrect behavior for Date.fromTimeLocal) and #139 (Date.date is broken). Note that some more thought should be given to the correct semantics of Date.date when dealing with offsets. For example, should an offset of +23 hours produce the same date as an offset of -1 hours? Currently our implementation produces different results (by a day) for these two situations.

John Reppy

Implemented the changes for Basis Library Proposal 2015-003. This proposal added operations to the following signatures:

and the following structures:

While it is very unlikely that these changes will break existing code, there are a a couple scenarios in which the code might break. Namely, when use of open introduces conflicts and when user code implements one of the affected Basis Library signatures. Both of these examples occurred in the SML/NJ source code; the former in the ml-yacc sources and the latter in the MLRISC sources.

John Reppy

Added the optional implementations of PackReal64Big and PackReal64Little. This addition addresses feature request #82 (Implementations of PACK_REAL missing). The implementation uses the approach suggested by Michael Sullivan.

John Reppy

Fixed bug #45 (Compiler bug in specialize phase). This bug was in compiler/FLINT/opt/fcontract.sml and was the result of a bad interaction between eta contraction and inlining. As part of the fix, I cleaned up the code in this part of FLINT a bit.

John Reppy

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John Reppy

Fixed bug #136 (Incorrect raising of exceptions in Real.fmt and Time.fmt).

John Reppy

Added Either structure and EITHER signature to Basis implementation ( Basis Library Proposal 2015-002).

John Reppy

Fixed bug #135 (Fails to build on Linux PowerPC).

John Reppy

Added Linux 4.* kernels to the list of operating systems recognized by the .arch-n-opsys script (fixes bug #134).

John Reppy

Added Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) to the list of operating systems recognized by the .arch-n-opsys script.

John Reppy

Added support for Successor ML lexical extensions. These can be enabled using the command-line option -Cparser.succ-ml=true or by the assignment

at the REPL. The extensions are as follows:

This change is the beginning of a program to add Successor ML feature to SML/NJ; See https://github.com/SMLFamily/Proposed-Definition-of-Successor-ML for more details.

John Reppy