MLton 20180207

# Bugs20041109

Here are the known bugs in MLton 20041109, listed in reverse chronological order of date reported.

- MLton.Finalizable.touch doesn’t necessarily keep values alive long enough. Our SVN has a patch to the compiler. You must rebuild the compiler in order for the patch to take effect.

  Thanks to Florian Weimer for reporting this bug.

- A bug in an optimization pass may incorrectly transform a program to flatten ref cells into their containing data structure, yielding a type-error in the transformed program. Our CVS has a patch to the compiler. You must rebuild the compiler in order for the patch to take effect.

  Thanks to VesaKarvonen for reporting this bug.

- A bug in the front end mistakenly allows unary constructors to be used without an argument in patterns. For example, the following program is accepted, and triggers a large internal error.

      fun f x = case x of SOME => true | _ => false

  We have fixed the problem in our CVS.

  Thanks to William Lovas for reporting this bug.

- A bug in Posix.IO.{getlk,setlk,setlkw} causes a link-time error: undefined reference to Posix_IO_FLock_typ Our CVS has a patch to the Basis Library implementation.

  Thanks to Adam Chlipala for reporting this bug.

- A bug can cause programs compiled with -profile alloc to segfault. Our CVS has a patch to the compiler. You must rebuild the compiler in order for the patch to take effect.

  Thanks to John Reppy for reporting this bug.

- A bug in an optimization pass may incorrectly flatten ref cells into their containing data structure, breaking the sharing between the cells. Our CVS has a patch to the compiler. You must rebuild the compiler in order for the patch to take effect.

  Thanks to Paul Govereau for reporting this bug.

- Some arrays or vectors, such as (char * char) vector, are incorrectly implemented, and will conflate the first and second components of each element. Our CVS has a patch to the compiler. You must rebuild the compiler in order for the patch to take effect.

  Thanks to Scott Cruzen for reporting this bug.

- Socket.Ctl.getLINGER and Socket.Ctl.setLINGER mistakenly raise Subscript. Our CVS has a patch to the Basis Library implementation.

  Thanks to Ray Racine for reporting the bug.

- CML Mailbox.send makes a call in the wrong atomic context. Our CVS has a patch to the CML implementation.

- OS.Path.joinDirFile and OS.Path.toString did not raise InvalidArc when they were supposed to. They now do. Our CVS has a patch to the Basis Library implementation.

  Thanks to Andreas Rossberg for reporting the bug.

- The front end incorrectly disallows sequences of expressions (separated by semicolons) after a topdec has already been processed. For example, the following is incorrectly rejected.

      val x = 0;
      ignore x;
      ignore x;

  We have fixed the problem in our CVS.

  Thanks to Andreas Rossberg for reporting the bug.

- The front end incorrectly disallows expansive val declarations that bind a type variable that doesn’t occur in the type of the value being bound. For example, the following is incorrectly rejected.

      val 'a x = let exception E of 'a in () end

  We have fixed the problem in our CVS.

  Thanks to Andreas Rossberg for reporting this bug.

- The x86 codegen fails to account for the possibility that a 64-bit move could interfere with itself (as simulated by 32-bit moves). We have fixed the problem in our CVS.

  Thanks to Scott Cruzen for reporting this bug.

- NetHostDB.scan and NetHostDB.fromString incorrectly raise an exception on internet addresses whose last component is a zero, e.g 0.0.0.0. Our CVS has a patch to the Basis Library implementation.

  Thanks to Scott Cruzen for reporting this bug.

- StreamIO.inputLine has an off-by-one error causing it to drop the first character after a newline in some situations. Our CVS has a patch. to the Basis Library implementation.

  Thanks to Scott Cruzen for reporting this bug.

- BinIO.getInstream and TextIO.getInstream are implemented incorrectly. This also impacts the behavior of BinIO.scanStream and TextIO.scanStream. If you (directly or indirectly) realize a TextIO.StreamIO.instream and do not (directly or indirectly) call TextIO.setInstream with a derived stream, you may lose input data. We have fixed the problem in our CVS.

  Thanks to WesleyTerpstra for reporting this bug.

- Posix.ProcEnv.setpgid doesn’t work. If you compile a program that uses it, you will get a link time error

      undefined reference to `Posix_ProcEnv_setpgid'

  The bug is due to Posix_ProcEnv_setpgid being omitted from the MLton runtime. We fixed the problem in our CVS by adding the following definition to runtime/Posix/ProcEnv/ProcEnv.c

      Int Posix_ProcEnv_setpgid (Pid p, Gid g) {
              return setpgid (p, g);
      }

  Thanks to Tom Murphy for reporting this bug.