*** ANNOUNCE: SML/NJ 110.52 AVAILABLE ***

                          S  M  L   /   N  J

                    1  1  0  .  5  2      N  E  W  S
			
                           December 15, 2004

                                 WARNING

         This working version is believed to be stable, but
         we have not run our full regression-test suite.

              HOME:  http://www.smlnj.org/index.html
              FILES: http://smlnj.cs.uchicago.edu/dist/working/110.52/


Summary:

    Minor additions and improvements to library code; bug fixes.

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Details:

Interactive system:
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   - improved error messages related to .cm- and .sml-files that
     appear as part of the command line

Basis:
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   - The system can now (optionally) be compiled with 64-bit position
     values (structure Position = Int64).  See the HISTORY file for
     more information.

Libraries:
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   - HashString.hashString' for substrings added.
   - Atom.atom' now extracts a string from the given substring only
     if it is not already in the table.
   - Two simple but potentially useful statistics modules added to
     SML/NJ library.
   - Minor performance improvements.

Compiler/MLRISC:
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   - bug fixes in PPC backend (does not affect SML/NJ directly)

Scripts:
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   - fixed bug in ml-makedepend
   - tried to make scripts more robust against filenames that contain
     whitespace (common under Win32 and Mac OS X)