ANNOUNCE: nhc98-1.02 RPMS for RedHat Linux 7.0

[José Romildo Malaquias]

Hello.

I have built RPM packages for hmake-1.02 and nhc98-1.02
for RedHat Linux 7.0, available from

	ftp://urano.iceb.ufop.br/pub/nhc98/

Romildo.
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:27:48PM +0000, malcolm-nhc@cs.york.ac.uk wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the new release 1.02 of nhc98, a compiler
> for Haskell'98, written in Haskell'98.
> 
>     http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/nhc98/
> 
> It is available as a source package (which can be built via ghc, hbc,
> an existing nhc98 installation, or simply with a C compiler if you
> don't already have a Haskell compiler installed).
> 
> Binary packages are also currently available for ix86-Linux and
> sparc-solaris2.  Binary packages for other architectures can be
> added to the list if users contribute them.
> 
> 
> What's new
> ----------
> This is an interim release, mainly fixing bugs in nhc98-1.00.
> The tracing and debugging tool, Hat, is about to undergo some
> significant changes, so release 1.02 is a stable snapshot before we
> start to break too many things!
> 
> Amongst the many bugfixes, notable ones are as follows:
> 
>     * Fixed a space-leak in the compiler.  Compilation now
>       requires approximately half the previous maximum heap,
>       and as a result, compile times are 5-10% faster.
> 
>     * The raw speed of input and output for compiled programs is
>       now much faster, although you will probably only notice a
>       difference if your program is severely I/O-bound.
> 
>     * Local infix declarations now work correctly.
> 
>     * `newtype T a = T a' now works correctly.
> 
>     * @-pattern-bindings are fixed.  This means that Happy-generated
>       parsers now compile correctly.
> 
>     * We now accept {-# pragmas #-} in any source position, and
>       understand LINE pragmas.
> 
> Recent bugfixes and new features in Hat include:
> 
>     * When a traced program is interrupted or terminates with an error,
>       you get a virtual stack trace of the computation "for free",
>       without having to start up a browser.
> 
>     * Foreign imports (via the new common primitive FFI) with an
>       I/O result type are now also traced (previously only pure
>       foreign functions were traced).
> 
>     * Interface and object files for tracing now have distinct
>       file suffixes: .T.hi and .T.o.  This improves matters enormously
>       when switching between normal and tracing versions of a program.
>       It also fixes some dependency bugs when building the tracing
>       version of the compiler.  Both the compiler and hmake have
>       knowledge of the new suffixes.
> 
>     * Tracing versions of the following libraries have been added:
>          IO, Array, FFI, IOExtras.
>       (Still missing: Directory, System, Time, Locale, CPUTime, Random.)
> 
> 
> Regards,
>     Malcolm
> 
> 
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Prof. José Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br>
Departamento de Computação
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Brasil