Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.2 Release Candidate 1

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:43:26PM -0700, jutaro wrote:

Is this fix so important to introduce it now? What does it help when it was never officially supported if it causes such troubles?

The reason it's now not allowed is that 6.10.2 provides guarantees about running C finalizers that 6.10.1 did not. See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1364 for more details. Thanks Ian