Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 2

binary works fine also, same env, same testing as with compiled source I did notice a very minor infelicity in the TOC for the pdf User's Guide. I think it was there in rc1 also The formatting seems to assume there are are never more than 3 digits on lines such as the following and is missing a space when there are 4 digits, e.g. 10.7 Pattern synonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 10.8 Class and instances declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 10.9 Type families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 10.10Datatype promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 10.11Kind polymorphism and Type-in-Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 10.12Runtime representation polymorphism . . On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:23 PM George Colpitts wrote:

compiled from source with no issues on Mac OS 10.12.2 with XCode 8.2.1. Compiled vector package with it, did some smoke testing of the runtime, seems fine

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:39 PM Ben Gamari wrote:

Hello everyone,

The GHC team is happy to announce the second candiate of the 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at

http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc2/

This is the second and likely final release candidate leading up the 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number of bugs found in 8.0.1 including,

* Interface file build determinism (#4012).

* Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile position-independent executables by default

* Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)

* A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while compiling some packages (see #12076)

* Compatability with systems which use the gold linker

* A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system

* A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads.

* A typechecker bug which caused some programs using -XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.

* More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete listing.

This release candidate fixes a number of issues present in -rc1,

* #12757, which lead to broken runtime behavior and even crashes in the presence of primitive strings.

* #12844, a type inference issue affecting partial type signatures.

* A bump of the `directory` library, fixing buggy path canonicalization behavior (#12894). Unfortunately this required a major version bump in `directory` and minor bumps in several other libraries.

* #12912, where use of the `select` system call would lead to runtime system failures with large numbers of open file handles.

If all goes well we should have a final 8.0.2 release out shortly after the new year. As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!

Happy testing,

- Ben

[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.0.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs