From: rrt Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:43:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [project @ 2000-01-24 12:43:45 by rrt] X-Git-Tag: Approximately_9120_patches~5233 X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1e34a97e52f74ddbbceada8d116eaf02cdca319c;p=ghc-hetmet.git [project @ 2000-01-24 12:43:45 by rrt] Wrote 4.06 release notes and updated version numbers in the rest of the user guide. --- diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/4-06-notes.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/4-06-notes.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..851c201 --- /dev/null +++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/4-06-notes.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,250 @@ + +Release notes for version 4.06—1/00 + + + + + + + + +User visible changes + + + + + +Major library reorganisation. The libraries are now split into 8 +categories: + + + + +concurrent + + +Same as the old concurrent library + + + + + +data + + +Datatypes. Contains old FiniteMap +and Set modules, and Chris Okasaki's Edison +library. + + + + + +lang + + +contains most of the contents of +the old exts library + + + + + +net + + +networking-related libraries (Socket, SocketPrim, and +new URI library). + + + + + +num + + +numerical-related libraries (currently empty). + + + + + +posix + + +the old POSIX library + + + + + +text + + +text-processing related libraries (including Andy Gill's +HTML library) + + + + + +util + + +various miscellaneous libraries, including John Hughes' +and Koen Claessen's QuickCheck library. + + + + + + +See the accompanying libraries documentation for more details. + + + + + +Cleanup of concurrent I/O system. We now use non-blocking I/O on +all Handles, so that multiple threads can do I/O simultaneously. +We don't however do non-blocking I/O on stdout/stderr, +due to reports that some shells don't correctly restore +blocking mode on these file descriptors after running a program. + + + + + +Exception changes + + + + +raiseInThread can now raise exceptions in threads blocked on I/O or time delays. + + + + + +New functions in Exception + + +blockAsyncExceptions :: IO a -> IO a +unblockAsyncExceptions :: IO a -> IO a + + +used to control the delivery of asynchronous exceptions to +a thread (including those raised via raiseInThread). + + + + + +Asynchronous exceptions are now blocked by default inside +an exception handler. Use unblockAsyncExceptions to +restore the previous behaviour. + + + + + + + + + + +Add NetBSD/x86 support. + + + + + +Added support for foreign export dynamic. + + + + + + + + + + +Minor changes + + + + + +Build system cleanup—BIN_DIST=1 is now needed in build.mk (before building!) to build binary dists. + + + + + +New RTS option , which prints the current cost-centre +stack to stderr whenever an exception is raised (only for +profiling builds). + + + + + + + + + + +Not-quite-ready-yet, but in there nontheless + + + + + +SMP support + + + +Building way 's' on a system with pthreads (only tested on +Linux so far) will include support for running multiple +Haskell threads on several pthreads simultaneously. If +your system supports it, this will enable Haskell programs +to take advantage of multiprocessor SMP machines. + + + + + + +GranSim and GUM + + + +Initial ports of GranSim and GUM to GHC 4 are in there. Not quite +ready yet. + + + + + + +Profiling + + + +Heap profiling sort-of works. Only cost-centre heap +profiles are supported so far. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/installing.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/installing.sgml index b9d37c1..7a72e78 100644 --- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/installing.sgml +++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/installing.sgml @@ -585,8 +585,9 @@ the new settings take effect. Software required -You need two chunks of software other than GHC itself: the Cygwin toolchain, and -Perl. Here's how to get and install them. + +You need two chunks of software other than GHC itself: the Cygwin toolchain, and Perl. Here's how to get and install them. + The cygwin toolchain (beta20.1) @@ -727,6 +728,7 @@ when you invoke GHC, such as: Reason: file does not exist /tmp/ghc11068.cpp We think this is due to a bug in Cygwin. + diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml index 6867ea9..b385bd0 100644 --- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml +++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ -The Glasgow Haskell Compiler User's Guide, Version 4.04 +The Glasgow Haskell Compiler User's Guide, Version 4.06 The GHC Team
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