Standard ML of New Jersey Release Notes

SML/NJ HOME: https://smlnj.org
FILES: https://smlnj.org/dist/working/110.99.2/

Summary

This is a patch release that includes a few bug fixes and adds support for macOS 12 (Monterey).

Details

SML/NJ Library

Several improvements to the JSON library:

Added convenience function int to the JSON_STREAM_OUTPUT interface.
Refactored the output modules in the JSON library. These changes should not affect current clients of the library, but allow the addition of printing JSON to a CharBuffer.buf.
Bug fix to JSONUtil module; the FIND path arc was not getting handled for the update functions (i.e., replace, insert, and append).

32-bit macOS issues

While the x86 installer for 110.99.2 works on macOs 10.14 Mojave, building from source requires some extra steps because the version of Xcode distributed for Mojave does not include a 32-bit SDK.

Another issue that you may encounter when building on macOs 10.14 Mojave is an error message for a shell script of the form

  /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

This error arises because the com.apple.quarantine attribute is set on the shell script. To fix the problem, remove the attribute using the command

  xattr -d com.apple.quarantine shell-script

and resume the build.

Bugs

Here is a list of tracked bugs fixed (or closed) with this release, please see the bug tracker for more details.

279	`Real.toLargeInt` returns zero for anything in range `[-512,512]`
286	Installation of SML/NJ v110.99.1 fails in fresh Ubuntu 20.04/macOS 10.15
287	Install errors with `request asdl`
293	SMLNJ Incompatibility with macOS 12 Beta

The following unnumbered bug was also fixed:

Floating-point spill records were twice as large as necessary on 64-bit systems.

Supported systems

We believe that SML/NJ will build and run on the following systems, but have only tested some of them:

Architecture

Operating System

Status

AMD64

FreeBSD 12.0

Tested

macOS 10.14 (Mojave)

Tested

macOS 10.15 (Catalina)

Tested

macOS 11 (Big Sur)

Tested

macOS 12 (Monterey)

Tested

Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

Tested

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Tested

Power PC

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

AIX

Sparc

Solaris

Linux

x86 (32-bit)

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

Tested

macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)

Tested

macOS 10.14 (Mojave)

Tested

Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

Tested

Other Linux variants

FreeBSD 12.0

Tested

Other BSD variants

Windows 7

Windows 10

Cygwin (32-bit)