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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2018-08-21 19:08:12 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2018-08-23 22:42:08 -0400
commitedb471498149b9aae841b1b1ff8d2f418002a829 (patch)
tree3751105aa7fe7ca224934b847852806e0a54d134
parent8d72f87877fbc6e90ebeff12f71b69c44aea4875 (diff)
downloadhaskell-edb471498149b9aae841b1b1ff8d2f418002a829.tar.gz
docs: Add changelog and release notes entry for traceBinaryEvent#
-rw-r--r--docs/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.rst7
-rw-r--r--libraries/ghc-prim/changelog.md7
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.rst
index 7ea2c87cbe..7e546452be 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.rst
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ Template Haskell
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+``ghc-prim`` library
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- GHC now exposes a new primop, ``traceBinaryEvent#``. This primop writes
+ eventlog events similar to ``traceBinaryEvent#`` but allows the user to pass
+ the event payload as a binary blob instead of a ``String``.
+
``ghc`` library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/libraries/ghc-prim/changelog.md b/libraries/ghc-prim/changelog.md
index 53e77a0892..76da3e0b1d 100644
--- a/libraries/ghc-prim/changelog.md
+++ b/libraries/ghc-prim/changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+## 0.6.0
+
+- Shipped with GHC 8.8.1
+
+- Added to `GHC.Prim`:
+ traveBinaryEvent# :: Addr# -> Int# -> State# s -> State# s
+
## 0.5.3 (edit as necessary)
- Shipped with GHC 8.6.1