FIX #1861: floating-point constants for infinity and NaN in via-C

[ghc-hetmet.git] / docs / users_guide / bugs.xml

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml b/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
index ab0b9be..50ffb39 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@
       
       <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
-         <para>The Haskell report specifies that programs may be
-         written using Unicode.  GHC only accepts the ISO-8859-1
-         character set at the moment.</para>
-       </listitem>
-
-       <listitem>
          <para>Certain lexical rules regarding qualified identifiers
          are slightly different in GHC compared to the Haskell
          report.  When you have
@@ -102,7 +96,10 @@ main = do args &lt;- getArgs
     <sect3 id="infelicities-decls">
       <title>Declarations and bindings</title>
 
-      <para>None known.</para>
+      <para>GHC's typechecker makes all pattern bindings monomorphic
+      by default; this behaviour can be disabled with
+      <option>-fno-mono-pat-binds</option>.  See <xref
+      linkend="options-language" />.</para>
     </sect3>
       
       <sect3 id="infelicities-Modules">
@@ -180,6 +177,16 @@ checking for duplicates.  The reason for this is efficiency, pure and simple.
               alphabetic by <literal>isAlpha</literal>.</para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
+
+         <varlistentry>
+           <term>Strings treated as ISO-8859-1</term>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+            Various library functions, such as <literal>putStrLn</literal>,
+            treat Strings as if they were ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8.
+          </para>
+           </listitem>
+         </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
     </sect3>
   </sect2>
@@ -337,7 +344,7 @@ checking for duplicates.  The reason for this is efficiency, pure and simple.
         the problem would impose an extra overhead on every
         compilation.  So the bug remains un-fixed.  There is more
         background in <ulink
-        url="http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/inlining">
+        url="http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/inlining/">
         Secrets of the GHC inliner</ulink>.</para>
       </listitem>