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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/ocaml
From: Jaap Boender
Date: 2020-12-09 11:33:04
Message id: 20201209103304.C7A88FA9D@cvs.NetBSD.org
Log Message:
Updated lang/ocaml to 4.11.1.
Patches for solaris and friends are reinstated (thanks jperkin@)
Also thanks to he@ for testing on powerpc and arm
Highlights for 4.10.0:
* A new best-fit allocator for the major heap which reducing both GC cost
and memory usage.
* Immutable strings are now enforced at configuration time
* User-defined indexing operators for multidimensional arrays
* Miscellaneous improvements to the manual
* A more precise exhaustiveness check for GADTs
* Many bug fixes
Highlights for 4.11.0:
* Statmemprof: a new statistical memory profiler
* A new instrumented runtime that logs runtime statistics in a standard
format
* A native backend for the RISC-V architecture
* Improved backtraces that refer to function names
* Suppport for recursive and yet unboxed types
* A quoted extension syntax for ppxs.
* Many quality of life improvements
* Many bug fixes.
4.11.1 is a bugfix release. Full details in the CHANGELOG included with
the distribution.
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