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.
Highlights of this release are:
* new optimisations, in particular for affine functions in matches;
* the graphics library was moved out of the main distribution;
* the vmthread library was removed;
* support for compiler plugins was removed;
* many bug fixes.
For more details see the Changes file in the distribution.
4.08.1 is a bugfix release, fixing compilation failures in presence of the
-pack option, and dynlinking failures.
Highlights in 4.08.0 are:
* Binding operators (let*, let+, and*, etc). They can be used to
streamline monadic code.
* open now applies to arbitrary module expression in structures and to
applicative paths in signatures.
* A new notion of (user-defined) "alerts" generalizes the deprecated
warning.
* New modules in the standard library: Fun, Bool, Int, Option, Result.
* A significant number of new functions in Float, including FMA support,
and a new Float.Array submodule.
* Source highlighting for errors and warnings in batch mode.
* Many error messages were improved.
* Improved AFL instrumentation for objects and lazy values.
