Misc...

[Stephen Weeks]

> I'm going for a C-backend - basically because the deadline will be
> tight and I know many of the issues of porting the C-backend quite well
> by now I think :)

True, but this is a bigger project, since we will have to change various parts
of the backend (files in src/mlton/backend/).

> Also, I will need to bootstrap MLton itself for MacOS this time,
> since nobody seem to know about crosscompiling Linux->Mac.
> So I think the way to do it is to compile MLton itself to
> C with a MacOS runtime and basislib, and then compile that
> C file natively on Mac with gcc.

One request -- please start with the 20010706 version of MLton, since there have
been so many changes and bugfixes since 1999-7-12.