[commit: ghc] ghc-7.10: docs: More 7.10.2 release notes (f4f6f18)
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On branch : ghc-7.10
Link : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/f4f6f1834a63a0f61b0fee659ba1ee58ca6e4da0/ghc
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commit f4f6f1834a63a0f61b0fee659ba1ee58ca6e4da0
Author: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
Date: Fri Jun 12 14:30:46 2015 -0500
docs: More 7.10.2 release notes
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
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f4f6f1834a63a0f61b0fee659ba1ee58ca6e4da0
docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
index 65d9f89..661d3eb 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
+ A bug in the typechecker which could result in strange,
+ inconsistent reduction of type families has been fixed
+ (issue #10488).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
A bug which caused GHC to generate bad DWARF unwinding
information has been fixed (issue #10236).
</para>
@@ -131,6 +138,18 @@
(issue #10317).
</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
+ an error. As a result of this change, however, GHC
+ compiled programs now also specifically recognize ASCII
+ encodings, and can bypass iconv in these cases. This
+ allows statically compiled programs to exist inside an
+ initramfs, for example. (issues #10298, #7695).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
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