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| author | Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> | 2014-11-03 08:02:55 -0600 |
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| committer | Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> | 2014-11-03 08:02:55 -0600 |
| commit | ce30dae684b91fd734cfdfc4d9f223f28f539f0a (patch) | |
| tree | 4c97fcad31dc21f483b8278022eaa763a3e059e3 | |
| parent | 7d128ea05cf91589ae78873294f63938af45b2b9 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-ce30dae684b91fd734cfdfc4d9f223f28f539f0a.tar.gz | |
Flesh out release notes.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/7.8.4-notes.xml | 84 |
1 files changed, 83 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.4-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.4-notes.xml index 075ffb61fc..5d980635d3 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.4-notes.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.4-notes.xml @@ -13,7 +13,89 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> - Lorem ipsum... + A critical bug in the LLVM backend which would cause the + compiler to generate incorrect code has been fixed (issue + #9439). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Several bugs in the code generator have been fixed for + unregisterised platforms, such as 64bit PowerPC (issue + #8819 and #8849). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A bug that could cause GHC's constructor specialization + pass (enabled by default at <literal>-O2</literal>, or via + <literal>-fspec-constr</literal>) to loop forever and + consume large amounts of memory has been fixed (issue + #8960). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A bug that would cause GHC to fail when attempting to + determine GCC's version information in non-english locales + has been fixed (issue #8825). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A minor bug that allowed GHC to seemingly import (but not + use) private data constructors has been fixed (issue + #9006). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A bug in the register allocator which would cause GHC to + crash during compilation has been fixed (issue #9303). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A bug that caused the compiler to panic on some input C-- + code has been fixed (issue #9329). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A few various minor deadlocks in the runtime system when + using <literal>forkProcess</literal> have been fixed. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A bug which made blocked STM transactions + non-interruptible has been fixed (issue #9379). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A bug in the compiler which broke pattern synonym imports + across modules in Haddock has been fixed (issue #9417). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A minor bug in the code generator in which the + <literal>popCnt16#</literal> did not zero-extend its + result has been fixed (issue #9435). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A minor bug in the compiler which made error messages emit + necessary parenthesis has been fixed (issue #9658). + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A bug which caused the compiler to panic on pattern + synonyms inside a class declaration has been fixed (issue + #9705). </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> |