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  • docs/users_guide/9.12.4-notes.rst
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     - Fixed a subtle bug in ``GHC.Core.Utils.mkTick`` that could generate type-incorrect code (:ghc-ticket:`26772`)
    
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     - Fixed a long-standing interaction between ticks and casts in ``Eliminate Identity Cases``
    
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     - ``NamedDefaults``: require the class to be standard or have an in-scope default declaration (:ghc-ticket:`25775`, :ghc-ticket:`25778`)
    
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    +- ``NamedDefaults``: allow named defaults for poly-kinded unary classes such as ``Typeable`` (:ghc-ticket:`25882`)
    
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    +- Improved compiler performance by making ``OccAnal`` stricter, reducing residency and improving compile times
    
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    +- Fixed two critical Cmm register bugs affecting spill/reload behavior with vector types (:ghc-ticket:`26542`, :ghc-ticket:`26550`)
    
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    +- Fixed the order of spill/reload instructions in the native code generator (:ghc-ticket:`26537`)
    
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    +- Fixed five register allocation bugs relating to register formats, preventing data corruption when spilling and reloading vector registers (:ghc-ticket:`26411`, :ghc-ticket:`26526`)
    
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    +- Fixed PPC NCG shift right operations at smaller than word sizes (:ghc-ticket:`26519`)
    
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    +- Fixed associated type family changes not triggering recompilation in dependent modules (:ghc-ticket:`26183`)
    
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    +- Fixed data family instance type class instance changes not triggering recompilation (:ghc-ticket:`26705`)
    
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    +- Fixed negative type literals bypassing the renamer check via ``RequiredTypeArguments``, causing the compiler to hang (:ghc-ticket:`26861`)
    
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    +- Fixed scoping errors in the type-class specialiser (:ghc-ticket:`26682`)
    
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    +- Fixed sign extension and casting for LLVM bit manipulation operations (:ghc-ticket:`20645`, :ghc-ticket:`26109`)
    
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    +- Fixed LLVM linking of Intel BMI intrinsics ``pdep{8,16}`` and ``pext{8,16}`` (:ghc-ticket:`26065`)
    
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     - Fixed a deadlock with eventlog flush interval and RTS shutdown (:ghc-ticket:`26573`)
    
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    -- Fixed eager black holes: record mutated closure and fix assertion (:ghc-ticket:`26495`)
    
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    +- Handle 16-bit overflow of ELF section header string table (:ghc-ticket:`26603`)
    
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     - Fixed object file format detection in ``loadArchive`` (:ghc-ticket:`26630`)
    
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     - Use ``INFO_TABLE_CONSTR`` for ``stg_dummy_ret_closure`` (:ghc-ticket:`26745`)
    
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     - Fixed lost wakeups in ``threadPaused`` for threads blocked on black holes (:ghc-ticket:`26324`)
    
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     - Fixed ``stg_AP_STACK`` to push the correct update frame (:ghc-ticket:`26324`)
    
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     - Fixed potential loop in heap reservation logic on certain kernels (:ghc-ticket:`26151`)
    
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    +- The runtime linker now supports COMMON symbols (:ghc-ticket:`6107`)
    
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     - Don't use CAS without ``PARALLEL_GC`` on
    
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     - Switch prim to use modern atomic compiler builtins (:ghc-ticket:`26729`)
    
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     - Removed obsolete ``CC_SUPPORTS_TLS``, ``HAS_VISIBILITY_HIDDEN``, ``COMPILING_WINDOWS_DLL``,
    
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     - Expose ``Backtraces`` constructor and fields (:ghc-ticket:`26049`)
    
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    +- Added ``@since`` annotation to ``System.Info.fullCompilerVersion`` (:ghc-ticket:`26973`)
    
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     - Store ``StackTrace`` and ``StackSnapshot`` in ``Backtraces``, deferring decoding until display
    
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     - Evaluate backtraces for ``error`` exceptions at the moment they are thrown
    
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       (`CLC proposal #383 <https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/383>`__,