ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.2 Release Candidate 1

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Fri Mar 20 19:21:13 EDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:43:26PM -0700, jutaro wrote:
> 
> Is this
> fix so important to introduce it now? What does it help when it was never
> officially supported if it causes such troubles?

The reason it's now not allowed is that 6.10.2 provides guarantees about
running C finalizers that 6.10.1 did not. See
    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1364
for more details.


Thanks
Ian



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