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explicit file specifications -- avoid secondary load path;

Poly/ML for Isabelle
====================

This compilation of Poly/ML 5.4 is based on the official sources from
http://www.polyml.org with the following patch from the SVN (which is
also part of the fixes-5.4 source tree):

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r1214 | dcjm | 2010-09-14 20:03:52 +0200 (Tue, 14 Sep 2010) | 1 line

Fix to arbitrary precision emulation for X86.  A GC during emulating
an operation could cause the stack to move resulting in the result of
the operation not being stored into the result register.
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diff libpolyml/x86_dep.cpp libpolyml/x86_dep.cpp.orig
1308,1311c1308
<                     if (! inConsts) {
<                         destReg = get_reg(taskData, rrr); // May have moved because of a GC.
<                         *destReg = PolyWord::FromUnsigned(destReg->AsUnsigned()+1);
<                     }
---
>                     if (! inConsts) *destReg = PolyWord::FromUnsigned(destReg->AsUnsigned()+1);
1344,1347c1341
<                     if (! inConsts) {
<                         destReg = get_reg(taskData, rrr); // May have moved because of a GC.
<                         *destReg = PolyWord::FromUnsigned(destReg->AsUnsigned()-1);
<                     }
---
>                     if (! inConsts) *destReg = PolyWord::FromUnsigned(destReg->AsUnsigned()-1);

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The included build script is used like this:

  ./build src x86-linux --with-gmp
  ./build src x86_64-linux --with-gmp
  ./build src x86-darwin --without-gmp
  ./build src x86_64-darwin --without-gmp
  ./build src x86-cygwin --with-gmp

The multi-platform directory layout for executables and shared
libraries accommodates the standard ML_HOME settings for Isabelle.


Also note that the separate "sha1" library module is required for
efficient digesting of strings according to SHA-1.


	Makarius
	20-Dec-2010