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  		         February 13, 2004
			      WARNING
  	This working version is believed to be stable, but
	we have not run our full regression-test suite.
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Summary:
This is a maintenance release which fixes some minor problems, most
notably an incompatibility with GCC 3.3.
Details:
Basis:
  - Timer interface
changed in anticipation of a change to the spec
- POSIX_FLAGS replaced
with BIT_FLAGS
- type of top-level app
corrected
- other minor discrepancies with spec fixed
runtime:
  - added vp_limitPtrMask
to win32-specific code
- added win32 Sleep
function to runtime
- dropped "-ansi"
flag from gcc invocation when used on assembly code (fixes problem
related to gcc 3.3)
interactive loop:
  -   - exception reporting improved (don't show part of
exception history trace that reaches into the implementation of the
toplevel loop itself)
MLRISC:
  - preliminary support for c-calls
interface on PPC architecture added (not yet used for NLFFI)
- bug in getreg fixed
compiler:
  - code generation for int32
comparisons added