From 22fab1381ed179d1e8f85f52d713fde7347a0ea0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: simonm <unknown>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:45:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 1997-09-30 15:45:00 by simonm] release notes for
next version
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ghc/docs/users_guide/2-08-notes.lit | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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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.
+
+
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