<div dir="ltr">compiled from source with no issues on Mac OS 10.12.2 with XCode 8.2.1. Compiled vector package with it, did some smoke testing of the runtime, seems fine</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:39 PM Ben Gamari <<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com">ben@well-typed.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
Hello everyone,<br class="gmail_msg">
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The GHC team is happy to announce the second candiate of the<br class="gmail_msg">
8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary<br class="gmail_msg">
distributions are available at<br class="gmail_msg">
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<a href="http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc2/" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc2/</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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This is the second and likely final release candidate leading up the<br class="gmail_msg">
8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number of bugs found in 8.0.1<br class="gmail_msg">
including,<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Interface file build determinism (#4012).<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile<br class="gmail_msg">
position-independent executables by default<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while<br class="gmail_msg">
compiling some packages (see #12076)<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Compatability with systems which use the gold linker<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest<br class="gmail_msg">
on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads.<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A typechecker bug which caused some programs using<br class="gmail_msg">
-XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.<br class="gmail_msg">
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* More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete<br class="gmail_msg">
listing.<br class="gmail_msg">
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This release candidate fixes a number of issues present in -rc1,<br class="gmail_msg">
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* #12757, which lead to broken runtime behavior and even crashes in<br class="gmail_msg">
the presence of primitive strings.<br class="gmail_msg">
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* #12844, a type inference issue affecting partial type signatures.<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A bump of the `directory` library, fixing buggy path<br class="gmail_msg">
canonicalization behavior (#12894). Unfortunately this required a<br class="gmail_msg">
major version bump in `directory` and minor bumps in several other<br class="gmail_msg">
libraries.<br class="gmail_msg">
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* #12912, where use of the `select` system call would lead to runtime<br class="gmail_msg">
system failures with large numbers of open file handles.<br class="gmail_msg">
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If all goes well we should have a final 8.0.2 release out shortly after<br class="gmail_msg">
the new year. As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to<br class="gmail_msg">
everyone who has contributed so far!<br class="gmail_msg">
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Happy testing,<br class="gmail_msg">
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- Ben<br class="gmail_msg">
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