Minor installation bugs (?)
Stephen Weeks
sweeks@intertrust.com
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:23:26 -0700 (PDT)
> I have mlton-1999-3-19.1 -- if there is a later version then these bugs may
> have been fixed.
>
> 1) mlton-lib.h refers to <huge_val.h> which is neither a standard .h file nor
> is it included in the distribution. This is presumably part of the standard
> math.h header file.
>
> 2) In looking at mlton-lib.h, I noticed
> #define MLTON_Real_maxFinite 1.79769313486231470e308
> whereas limits.h on my systems have (I checked on SGI, and on Sparc systems)
> #define DBL_MAX 1.7976931348623157E+308
>
> 3) the flags in src/Makefile:
> -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
> are hardware specific. You might want to omit them.
>
> -- Allyn
I'm a bit confused. Is this the message that you were referring to
in the mail that you sent with subject "Re: previous message on MLton
installation"? The messages seem to have arrived out of order.