[project @ 1998-03-20 13:58:20 by sof]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / docs / users_guide / 3-01-notes.vsgml

diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/3-01-notes.vsgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/3-01-notes.vsgml
index 342f46c..bb5b25f 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/3-01-notes.vsgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/3-01-notes.vsgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<sect1>Release notes for version~3-01---2/97
+<sect1>Release notes for version~3-01---2/98
 <label id="release-3-01">
 <p>
 
@@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ Changes made since 3.00:
        Assertions are a Glasgow extension, so -fglasgow-exts is
        needed to use them.
 
+<item>
+  Split @-fwarn-unused-names@ into
+  
+  <descrip>
+  <tag>@-fwarn-unused-imports@</tag>
+        Warn about unused explicit imports. (in -W)
+  <tag>@-fwarn-unused-binds@</tag>
+        Warn about unused bindings          (in -W)
+  <tag>@-fwarn-unused-matches@</tag>
+        Warn about unused names in pattern matches
+                (not as useful, relegated to -Wall)
+  </descrip>
+
+<item> The driver is now always installed as @ghc-<version>@ with a
+link to it from @ghc@.
+
 <item> Library re-organisation: all libraries now live under ghc/lib,
 which has the following structure:
 
@@ -85,4 +101,22 @@ with 'Prel' to reduce namespace pollution.
        UnsafeST  ==> PrelUnsafeST
 </verb> </tscreen>
 
+<item> Unboxed types are now not allowed in the field of a newtype
+constructor.
+
+<item> Report the context properly for type errors in newtype
+declarations.
+
+<item> User's Guide replaced with SGML version.
+
+<item> The literate tools have been removed from the standard
+distributions, since they're not needed to format the documentation
+any more.
+
+<item> Lots of bug-fixes to the multi-parameter type classes support.
+
+<item> @alpha-dec-osf1@ and @alpha-dec-osf3@ are now separate
+configurations.  It turns out that an @alpha-dec-osf3@ build doesn't
+work on older versions of the OS.
+
 </itemize>