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1 <sect1>Release notes for version~3-02---4/97
2 <label id="release-3-02">
3 <p>
4
5 Changes made since 3.01:
6
7 <itemize>
8
9 <item> CharLike and IntLike closures fixed (should reduce allocation
10 slightly).
11
12 <item> Pattern binding desugaring improved to eliminate intermediate
13 tuples in some cases.
14
15 <item> Fixed parsing problem: declaring a record with an infix constructor.
16
17 <item> When computing the Makefile dependencies, using either
18 <tt/ghc -M/ (preferred) or by invoking the <tt/mkdependHS/ script
19 directly, <tt/CPP/ will now by default not be run over the input
20 files. To have CPP wash your input files, use the command-line option
21 <tt/-cpp/.
22
23 <item> Working specialiser (ToDo: more here)
24
25 <item> Added <tt/unsafeCoerce#/.
26
27 <item> Fixed compilation of real floating-point literals: they were
28 previously generated as applications of <tt/fromRational/, even when
29 not overloaded.
30
31 <item> The object splitter had a bug in it that increased binary sizes
32 significantly on i386-unknown-linux and sparc-sun-solaris2.  Now fixed.
33
34 </itemize>