[project @ 1997-10-03 15:22:48 by simonm]

litify.

ghc/docs/users_guide/2-08-notes.lit

-* removed deforester from source tree, including the {-# DEFOREST #-}
+GHC 2.08 is a minor upgrade of GHC 2.07, and is released as source only.  It represents work done through September '97.
+
+Here's a list of the changes made since GHC 2.07:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item 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
+\item documentation is now built automatically for binary distributions
+
+\item fixed several bugs affecting binary distributions.
+
+\item fixed bug in Regex.lhs causing random segmentation faults.
 
-* fixed several bugs affecting binary distributions.
+\item a couple of changes to the simplifier means that binary sizes should
+  be (very slightly) smaller.
 
-* fixed bug in Regex.lhs causing random segmentation faults.
+\item fixed a problem with error messages not being as accurate as they used to 
+  be.
 
-[happy]
+\item fixed a problem with ticky-ticky profiling (symptom: compiling modules
+  with -ticky gave lots of parse errors from the C compiler).
 
-* bug fixed in state generation.
+\item added support for @unmapMiddleStackPage@ on cygwin32.
 
-* happy now reports the number of unused rules and terminals in the
+\end{itemize}
+
+The following changes were made to Happy:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item bug fixed in state generation.
+
+\item 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.
+\item happy now tries to avoid generating fully overlapped patterns.
 
-* bug fixed in lexer: line numbers weren't being counted for '--'
+\item bug fixed in lexer: line numbers weren't being counted for @--@
   commented lines.
-
+\end{itemize}