[project @ 1997-10-15 14:31:43 by simonm]

release notes for upcoming releases

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+* unboxed the state in ST and IO, and specialised IO (it is no longer built
+  on top of ST).
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+* reversed the sense of -fwarn-{overlapped,incomplete}-patterns.  The driver
+  now has to have the flag to provide the warning.
+
+* added the -Wnot, -W, and -Wall options.  Set up a default set of warnings,
+  namely -fwarn-{overlapped,incomplete}-patterns.