Self-compile and mlton.cm

[Stephen Weeks]

> That fix to backend.fun eliminated my error.  I just finished a full
> self-compile and will let it run through the regression tests and
> benchmarks.  Assuming that all goes without problems, I'll send out the
> new version of the x86-backend this afternoon.

Great.  I'm itching to start using it.  Maybe I'll even see how we do on the
raytrace benchmark :-)

> Steve, would it easier for
> you if I sent a tar.gz like in the source rpm (i.e., the whole directory
> structure) or a tar.gz of the backend/x86-codegen directory and the other
> files that I changed? 

The latter.  I haven't changed much since 20001004.