[Git][ghc/ghc][wip/9.6.5-backports] 3 commits: Prepare release 9.6.5

Zubin (@wz1000) gitlab at gitlab.haskell.org
Mon Apr 15 05:03:11 UTC 2024



Zubin pushed to branch wip/9.6.5-backports at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC


Commits:
87326ae9 by Zubin Duggal at 2024-04-15T10:32:22+05:30
Prepare release 9.6.5

- - - - -
7a728210 by Zubin Duggal at 2024-04-15T10:32:22+05:30
Disable `-fasm-shortcutting` on -O2 and warn about its usage.

This flag is known to result in unsound optimisations potentially resulting in
incorrect runtime behaviour (#24507).

(cherry picked from commit 4ae8d89e376d79b4188c61e6469c7f01d8445768)

- - - - -
3a1d8bb2 by Zubin Duggal at 2024-04-15T10:32:22+05:30
Bump Cabal submodule to 3.10.3.0

- - - - -


10 changed files:

- compiler/GHC/Driver/Config/CmmToAsm.hs
- compiler/GHC/Driver/Session.hs
- configure.ac
- + docs/users_guide/9.6.5-notes.rst
- docs/users_guide/bugs.rst
- docs/users_guide/release-notes.rst
- docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst
- libraries/Cabal
- libraries/base/base.cabal
- libraries/base/changelog.md


Changes:

=====================================
compiler/GHC/Driver/Config/CmmToAsm.hs
=====================================
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ initNCGConfig dflags this_mod = NCGConfig
    , ncgDwarfSourceNotes    = osElfTarget (platformOS (targetPlatform dflags)) && debugLevel dflags > 2 -- We produce GHC-specific source-note DIEs only with -g3
    , ncgExposeInternalSymbols = gopt Opt_ExposeInternalSymbols dflags
    , ncgCmmStaticPred       = gopt Opt_CmmStaticPred dflags
-   , ncgEnableShortcutting  = gopt Opt_AsmShortcutting dflags
+                              -- Disabled due to https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24507
+   , ncgEnableShortcutting  = False -- gopt Opt_AsmShortcutting dflags
    , ncgComputeUnwinding    = debugLevel dflags > 0
    , ncgEnableDeadCodeElimination = not (gopt Opt_InfoTableMap dflags)
                                      -- Disable when -finfo-table-map is on (#20428)


=====================================
compiler/GHC/Driver/Session.hs
=====================================
@@ -3363,7 +3363,8 @@ fFlagsDeps = [
 -- See Note [Updating flag description in the User's Guide]
 -- See Note [Supporting CLI completion]
 -- Please keep the list of flags below sorted alphabetically
-  flagSpec "asm-shortcutting"                 Opt_AsmShortcutting,
+  depFlagSpec "asm-shortcutting"              Opt_AsmShortcutting
+    "this flag is disabled on this ghc version due to unsoundness concerns (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24507)",
   flagGhciSpec "break-on-error"               Opt_BreakOnError,
   flagGhciSpec "break-on-exception"           Opt_BreakOnException,
   flagSpec "building-cabal-package"           Opt_BuildingCabalPackage,
@@ -4002,7 +4003,8 @@ optLevelFlags -- see Note [Documenting optimisation flags]
     , ([1,2],   Opt_CaseMerge)
     , ([1,2],   Opt_CaseFolding)
     , ([1,2],   Opt_CmmElimCommonBlocks)
-    , ([2],     Opt_AsmShortcutting)
+    -- Disabled due to #24507
+    -- , ([2],     Opt_AsmShortcutting)
     , ([1,2],   Opt_CmmSink)
     , ([1,2],   Opt_CmmStaticPred)
     , ([1,2],   Opt_CSE)


=====================================
configure.ac
=====================================
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dnl
 # see what flags are available. (Better yet, read the documentation!)
 #
 
-AC_INIT([The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System], [9.6.4], [glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org], [ghc-AC_PACKAGE_VERSION])
+AC_INIT([The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System], [9.6.5], [glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org], [ghc-AC_PACKAGE_VERSION])
     # Version on master must be X.Y (not X.Y.Z) for ProjectVersionMunged variable
     # to be useful (cf #19058). However, the version must have three components
     # (X.Y.Z) on stable branches (e.g. ghc-9.2) to ensure that pre-releases are


=====================================
docs/users_guide/9.6.5-notes.rst
=====================================
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+.. _release-9.6.5:
+
+Version 9.6.5
+==============
+
+The significant changes to the various parts of the compiler are listed below.
+See the `migration guide
+<https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/migration/9.6>`_ on the GHC Wiki
+for specific guidance on migrating programs to this release.
+
+The :ghc-flag:`LLVM backend <-fllvm>` of this release is to be used with LLVM
+11, 12, 13, 14 or 15.
+
+Significant Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Issues fixed in this release include:
+
+Compiler
+--------
+
+- Disable ``-fasm-shortcutting`` with ``-O2`` as it leads to unsound optimisations
+  (:ghc-ticket:`24462).
+- Fix a typechecker bug resulting in ``TYPE`` and ``CONSTRAINT`` being apart
+  (:ghc-ticket:`24279`).
+- Fix a bug resulting in incorrect runtime results due to a botched simplifier
+  pass (:ghc-ticket:`24295`).
+- Assign correct source spans to nested documentation comments in the AST (:ghc-ticket:`24378`).
+- Fix a bug causing suboptimal error messages for certain invalid cyclic
+  module graphs with hs-boot files (:ghc-ticket:`24196`, :ghc-ticket:`24275`).
+- Fix a bug resulting in infix ``(~)`` and ``(@)`` operators not being usable in
+  TH quotes (:ghc-ticket:`23748`).
+- Fix a bug arising from incorrect parsing of paths containing spaces in the
+  settings file (:ghc-ticket:`24265`).
+- Allow special pragmas to desugar correctly in a few more cases (:ghc-ticket:`24370`).
+
+Runtime system
+--------------
+
+- Fix an off-by-one while writing eventlogs (:ghc-ticket:`24287`).
+- Avoid segfaults with using ``-Dn`` with the non-moving collector (:ghc-ticket:`24393`).
+
+Build system and packaging
+--------------------------
+
+- Fix a bug resulting in the distributed ``hsc2hs`` wrapper using flags from the
+  compiler build environment (:ghc-ticket:`24050`).
+- Better compatibility for newer alex versions in the configure script (:ghc-ticket:`24302`).
+- Handle autotools adding the ``-std`` flag to the ``CC``/``CXX`` variables (:ghc-ticket:`24324`).
+- Fix a typo in the configure script resulting in the target for the linker being set incorrectly
+  when configuring a cross-compiler (:ghc-ticket:`24414`).
+- Do not override existing linker flags in ``FP_LD_NO_FIXUP_CHAINS``.
+- Ensure the ``genapply`` program is built with the write constants when cross compiling (:ghc-ticket:`24347`).
+- Ensure we take ``LDFLAGS`` into account when configuring a linker (:ghc-ticket:`24565`).
+- Fix a segfault with the non-moving GC (:ghc-ticket:`24492`).
+
+Core libraries
+--------------
+
+- Bump ``base`` to 4.18.2.1
+- Bump ``filepath`` to 1.4.300.1
+- Bump ``directory`` to 1.3.8.4
+- Bump ``Cabal`` to 3.10.3.0
+- Bump ``process`` to 1.6.19.0
+- Bump ``libffi-tarballs`` to 3.4.6
+
+Included libraries
+------------------
+
+The package database provided with this distribution also contains a number of
+packages other than GHC itself. See the changelogs provided with these packages
+for further change information.
+
+.. ghc-package-list::
+
+    libraries/array/array.cabal:             Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/base/base.cabal:               Core library
+    libraries/binary/binary.cabal:           Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/bytestring/bytestring.cabal:   Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Cabal.cabal:       Dependency of ``ghc-pkg`` utility
+    libraries/Cabal/Cabal-syntax/Cabal-syntax.cabal:  Dependency of ``ghc-pkg`` utility
+    libraries/containers/containers/containers.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/deepseq/deepseq.cabal:         Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/directory/directory.cabal:     Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/exceptions/exceptions.cabal:   Dependency of ``ghc`` and ``haskeline`` library
+    libraries/filepath/filepath.cabal:       Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    compiler/ghc.cabal:                      The compiler itself
+    libraries/ghci/ghci.cabal:               The REPL interface
+    libraries/ghc-boot/ghc-boot.cabal:       Internal compiler library
+    libraries/ghc-boot-th/ghc-boot-th.cabal: Internal compiler library
+    libraries/ghc-compact/ghc-compact.cabal: Core library
+    libraries/ghc-heap/ghc-heap.cabal:       GHC heap-walking library
+    libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal:       Core library
+    libraries/haskeline/haskeline.cabal:     Dependency of ``ghci`` executable
+    libraries/hpc/hpc.cabal:                 Dependency of ``hpc`` executable
+    libraries/integer-gmp/integer-gmp.cabal: Core library
+    libraries/libiserv/libiserv.cabal:       Internal compiler library
+    libraries/mtl/mtl.cabal:                 Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/parsec/parsec.cabal:           Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/pretty/pretty.cabal:           Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/process/process.cabal:         Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/stm/stm.cabal:                 Dependency of ``haskeline`` library
+    libraries/template-haskell/template-haskell.cabal: Core library
+    libraries/terminfo/terminfo.cabal:       Dependency of ``haskeline`` library
+    libraries/text/text.cabal:               Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/time/time.cabal:               Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/transformers/transformers.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/unix/unix.cabal:               Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/Win32/Win32.cabal:             Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/xhtml/xhtml.cabal:             Dependency of ``haddock`` executable
+


=====================================
docs/users_guide/bugs.rst
=====================================
@@ -697,6 +697,9 @@ Bugs in GHC
 - ``-Wincomplete-record-updates`` does not warn about record updates for records with
   partial record fields since GHC 9.6.1. See :ghc-ticket:`23520` for more details.
 
+- ``-fasm-shortcutting`` may result in unsound optimisations and result in incorrect
+  runtime results. See :ghc-ticket:`24507` for more details.
+
 .. _bugs-ghci:
 
 Bugs in GHCi (the interactive GHC)


=====================================
docs/users_guide/release-notes.rst
=====================================
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ Release notes
    9.6.2-notes
    9.6.3-notes
    9.6.4-notes
+   9.6.5-notes


=====================================
docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst
=====================================
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ by saying ``-fno-wombat``.
     generator, merging basic blocks and avoiding jumps right after jumps.
 
 .. ghc-flag:: -fasm-shortcutting
-    :shortdesc: Enable shortcutting on assembly. Implied by :ghc-flag:`-O2`.
+    :shortdesc: Enable shortcutting on assembly.
     :type: dynamic
     :reverse: -fno-asm-shortcutting
     :category:
@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ by saying ``-fno-wombat``.
     these. Note that due to platform limitations (:ghc-ticket:`21972`) this flag
     does nothing on macOS.
 
+    This flag is known to result in unsoundness in this version of GHC
+    (:ghc-ticket:`24507`).
+
 .. ghc-flag:: -fblock-layout-cfg
     :shortdesc: Use the new cfg based block layout algorithm.
     :type: dynamic


=====================================
libraries/Cabal
=====================================
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 6c95f3fee3cdee859704b6476646cefd4628a850
+Subproject commit 256f85d735310196d437ede86046f2a86efedc6d


=====================================
libraries/base/base.cabal
=====================================
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:  3.0
 name:           base
-version:        4.18.2.0
+version:        4.18.2.1
 -- NOTE: Don't forget to update ./changelog.md
 
 license:        BSD-3-Clause


=====================================
libraries/base/changelog.md
=====================================
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog for [`base` package](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base)
 
+## 4.18.2.1 *April 2024*
+  * Various documentation improvements
+
 ## 4.18.2.0 *January 2024*
   * Update to [Unicode 15.1.0](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/).
   * Improve String & IsString documentation.



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