[commit: ghc] ghc-7.10: relnotes: More 7.10.2 release notes (9ea4ded)

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Repository : ssh://git@git.haskell.org/ghc

On branch  : ghc-7.10
Link       : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/9ea4ded2ee7822aed05275c390c285f0a60a6ef6/ghc

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commit 9ea4ded2ee7822aed05275c390c285f0a60a6ef6
Author: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
Date:   Sat Jun 27 19:34:17 2015 -0500

    relnotes: More 7.10.2 release notes
    
    Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>


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9ea4ded2ee7822aed05275c390c285f0a60a6ef6
 docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
index 4289d98..37a498a 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>
+            A bug which caused the simplifier to produce code which
+            segfaulted at runtime has been fixed (issue #10538).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
             A type-system bug which could allow a user to write
             <literal>unsafeCoerce</literal> has been fixed (issue
             #9858).
@@ -112,7 +118,7 @@
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>
-            The SMP runtime is now enabled on AArch64 (issue #10525).
+            The SMP runtime and GHCi are now enabled on AArch64 (issue #10525).
           </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
@@ -152,6 +158,26 @@
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>
+            Support for PowerPC relocations has been added (issue
+            #10402).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A lurking bug in the code generator which could cause
+            incorrect assembly code to be generated due to register
+            aliasing issues has been fixed (issue #10521).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A bug in the runtime system which could cause a deadlock
+            when scheduling garbage collections has been fixed (issue
+            #10545).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
             A bug which could cause compiled programs to loop forever
             when glibc's iconv implementation (gconv) wasn't available
             has been fixed, so these programs will now terminate with
@@ -238,8 +264,17 @@
        </listitem>
         <listitem>
             <para>
+                A bug in the simplifier which can cause it to totally
+                fail to compile certain programs that get 'very large'
+                at compile time is known (<ulink
+                url="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10527">issue
+                #10527</ulink>).
+           </para>
+       </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+            <para>
                 GHC's LLVM backend does not support LLVM 3.4 (<ulink
-		url="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9929">issue #9929</ulink>)
+		url="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9929">issue #9929</ulink>).
            </para>
        </listitem>
         <listitem>



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