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.
Details:
  - Interactive system:
- 
    
      - improved error messages related to .cm- and
      .sml-files that appear as part of the command line
 
- Basis:
- 
    
      - The system can now (optionally) be compiled with 64-bit position
      values (structure Position = Int64).  See the
      HISTORY file for more information.
 
- Libraries:
- 
    
      - HashString.hashSubstring 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:
- 
    
      - bug fixes in PPC backend (does not affect SML/NJ directly)
 
- Scripts:
- 
    
      - fixed bug in ml-makedepend
- tried to make scripts more robust against filenames that contain
      whitespace (common under Win32 and Mac OS X)