Bigloo1.8

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Bigloo (v1.8) ,--^,
a `Scheme' compiler _ ___/ /|/
Thu Feb 8 17:40:55 PST 1996 ,;'( )__, ) '
Manuel Serrano ;; // L__.
email: ' \ / '
serrano@pa.dec.com ^ ^
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The new release (1.8) of Bigloo, a Scheme compiler and
interpreter is now available by ftp at the address


          [192.93.2.54] `ftp.inria.fr:/INRIA/Projects/icsla/Implementations'


This alpha realease was successfully compiled on:


                - SPARC (SunOs4 and SunOs5)
                - HP-PA (715)
                - DEC Station 3000 (alpha OSF/1 V3.0)
                - SGI (IP20 and IP22)
                - SONY-NEWS (mips r3000)
                - PC-linux (i486)


The compiler should run correctly (but has not been tested) on:


                - DEC Station 3100 (mips r3000)
                - NeXT 68k
                - IBM RS-6000 (AIX)


Major changes from the release 1.7 are:


                - Improvement of error messages.


                - Full re-writing of the compiler (the new compiler should compile
                    a bit faster than previous ones).


                - Compile time and run time support for unboxing representation
                    (which for instance, speeds up the fft benchmark by a 17 factor).


                - Addition of an Lalr generator (many thanks to Dominique Boucher
                    boucherd@IRO.Umontreal.CA).


                - Addition of an `unwind-protect' form.


                - Checking of dynamic extend of `bind-exit' when compiling in
                    safe mode.


                - Redesign of the foreign interface (I apologize for syntactics
                    modification I made on the interface, these modifications are
                    explain in the documentation and an example can be found in
                    examples/Foreign/foreign.scm).


                - Automatic Bigloo C foreign declaration from C source files.


                - Connection with the X library.


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  Manuel SERRANO (tel: +1 415-688-1360 (1964)) email: serrano@pa.dec.com)
  DEC WRL, 250 University Avenue Palo Alto, 94301 California
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