[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.3

[Simon Marlow]

On 01/09/2014 12:30, Sven Panne wrote:
> 2014-09-01 9:26 GMT+02:00 Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Sven - you would need to compile the module with -dynamic or -dynamic-too
>> to have it be picked up by the new dynamically-linked GHCi in 7.8.
>
> Ah, OK... Adding -dynamic makes this work, but with -dynamic-too, ghci
> still loads the interpreted version. I didn't follow the linking story
> in detail, so this is all a bit confusing. I think that at least
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.3/html/users_guide/ghci-compiled.html
> needs some update, because as it is, it doesn't reflect reality.

Yes, -dynamic-too doesn't work: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8736

You're right about the docs, I'll take a look at fixing that.

Cheers,
Simon