[MLton-devel] Re: new release of MLton and MinGW

[Anoq of the Sun]

Stephen Weeks wrote:
> 
> Hi Anoq.  Feel free to start on the MinGW port with the new release.
> Because of problems with Cygwin's mmap, I changed gc.c to use
> VirtualAlloc/Free, which will hopefully make your life easier.  I even
> figured out how to shrink the heap, using MEM_DECOMMIT.

Sounds really great! I was already considering to start working on the
new release. I also used VirtualAlloc / Free in the old Win32 port
(much of the code was directly from SML/NJ) - but I didn't do the
heap-shrinking or anything. So maybe the GC will already work now with
MinGW as it is :)

Let us know
> if you need any help.  Hopefully we can get MinGW into the next
> release.

I will - great :)

BTW: Nice to see a picture of you guys on the website :)


Cheers
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