[commit: ghc] ghc-7.6: More release notes (3e1925a)

Ian Lynagh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cvs.ghc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/ghc

On branch  : ghc-7.6

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/3e1925ac18b6e976d3ee73c723593c4aefa0363f

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commit 3e1925ac18b6e976d3ee73c723593c4aefa0363f
Author: Ian Lynagh <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Dec 7 00:41:07 2012 +0000

    More release notes

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 docs/users_guide/7.6.2-notes.xml |   58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.6.2-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.6.2-notes.xml
index d17bfbd..54c96e3 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.6.2-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.6.2-notes.xml
@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@
 
        <listitem>
           <para>
+            A bug in the RTS, which could cause programs to hang or
+            segfault just before they terminate, has been fixed.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
             It is now possible to build on Sparc/Solaris with a
             non-GNU linker.
           </para>
@@ -87,6 +94,57 @@
             use a 32bit address space on 64bit Windows.
           </para>
        </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            An interaction between Template Haskell and
+            <literal>-fdefer-type-errors</literal> that could cause
+            segfaults has been fixed.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            If reloading some modules fails, GHCi will now not unload
+            modules that are unaffected by the failure.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A bug that caused crashes when
+            <literal>threadDelay</literal> is used with large arguments
+            has been fixed.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A bug which could cause segfaults when the
+            <literal>-xc</literal> RTS flag is used has been fixed.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A bug which caused duplicate type signatures to not be
+            reported in some circumstance has been fixed.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Using the <literal>-fth</literal> flag now gives a
+            deprecated message.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A bug that could cause spurious warnings when making rules
+            involving primops has been fixed.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
   </sect2>
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