diff options
| author | Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com> | 2013-08-29 17:44:23 -0500 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com> | 2013-08-29 17:45:00 -0500 |
| commit | 8940dd72cdcbade209963cdfd0f62b0fd6d7c492 (patch) | |
| tree | 1cd2d574deae099578c4dd0760fccf4b0c070cde /docs | |
| parent | 8c20f5d38c8994b633d6977e3001cbfd6715a59f (diff) | |
| download | haskell-8940dd72cdcbade209963cdfd0f62b0fd6d7c492.tar.gz | |
Add release notes about -dynamic-too
See #8181.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml index 56c4f743ae..5c9c1c9993 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml @@ -208,6 +208,24 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> + GHC can now build both static and dynamic object + files at the same time in a single compilation + pass, when given the + <literal>-dynamic-too</literal> flag. This will + produce both a statically-linkable + <literal>.o</literal> object file, and a + dynamically-linkable <literal>.dyn_o</literal> + file. The output suffix of the dynamic objects can + be controlled by the flag + <literal>-dyno</literal>. + </para> + + <para> + Note that GHC still builds statically by default. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> GHC now supports a <literal>--show-options</literal> flag, which will dump all of the flags it supports to standard out. </para> |