From: simonm <unknown>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:45:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [project @ 1997-09-30 15:45:00 by simonm]
X-Git-Tag: Approx_2487_patches~1456
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=22fab1381ed179d1e8f85f52d713fde7347a0ea0

[project @ 1997-09-30 15:45:00 by simonm]
release notes for next version
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diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/2-08-notes.lit b/ghc/docs/users_guide/2-08-notes.lit
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c7df5aa
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+* removed deforester from source tree, including the {-# DEFOREST #-}
+  pragma.  This stuff didn't work anymore, so there was no point
+  leaving it hanging around.  If someone wants to pick it up again,
+  the source can be checked out of the repository.
+
+* documentation is now built automatically for binary distributions
+
+* fixed several bugs affecting binary distributions.
+
+* fixed bug in Regex.lhs causing random segmentation faults.
+
+[happy]
+
+* bug fixed in state generation.
+
+* happy now reports the number of unused rules and terminals in the
+  grammar, and lists which ones are unused in the info file.
+
+* happy now tries to avoid generating fully overlapped patterns.
+
+* bug fixed in lexer: line numbers weren't being counted for '--'
+  commented lines.
+
+