[commit: ghc] master: Revert "Note infinite stack default in release notes." (2cec084)

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On branch  : master
Link       : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/2cec084e45392e0b0d198254017b140accee32f0/ghc

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commit 2cec084e45392e0b0d198254017b140accee32f0
Author: Austin Seipp <aseipp at pobox.com>
Date:   Sun Sep 8 16:17:39 2013 -0500

    Revert "Note infinite stack default in release notes."
    
    This reverts commit c798a8c6c66d826efdc0201fa56d45337eecc2af.


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2cec084e45392e0b0d198254017b140accee32f0
 docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml |   21 ---------------------
 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
index 2021fc6..15bf82b 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
@@ -346,27 +346,6 @@
 
             <listitem>
                 <para>
-                     By default, the maximum stack size in the runtime
-                     system is now infinite. This is controlled by the
-                     <literal>+RTS -K</literal> flag, which was
-                     previously defaulted to 8MB. In general, this
-                     will allow more programs to run as they will no
-                     longer stack overflow as quickly, although they
-                     may use much more memory.
-               </para>
-
-                <para>
-                     Note that you will still eventually encounter a
-                     stack overflow - when the heap is completely
-                     exhausted, as stacks are serviced from the
-                     storage manager. This will cause a runtime abort
-                     after invoking
-                     <literal>StackOverflowHook</literal>.
-               </para>
-           </listitem>
-
-            <listitem>
-                <para>
                     The performance of <literal>StablePtr</literal>s and
                     <literal>StableName</literal>s has been improved.
                </para>





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