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Commit 89a0be30 authored by Ben Gamari's avatar Ben Gamari
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relnotes: Note portability improvements

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......@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ performance improvements over the 7.10 branch.
Highlights
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The highlights, since the 7.10 branch, are:
The highlights, since the 7.10 series, are:
- The new :ghc-flag:`-XTypeInType` allows promotion of all types into
kinds, allowing kind synonyms, kind families, promoted GADTs, and other
......@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ The highlights, since the 7.10 branch, are:
:ghc-flag:`-fexternal-interpreter` and :ghc-flag:`-prof` (see
:ref:`ghci-stack-traces`).
- A native code generator for powerpc64 and powerpc64le architectures
- A native code generator for powerpc64 and powerpc64le architectures, support
for AIX targets, and significantly improved support on ARM.
- The reworked users guide you are now reading
......@@ -502,9 +503,12 @@ Runtime system
- The runtime linker is no longer greedy and will load only the needed objects
from archives. This means particularly on Windows packages requiring e.g. C99
support will now function properly. As part of this the RTS on Windows
no longer re-exports deprecated posix functions under the undeprecated names
no longer re-exports deprecated POSIX functions under the undeprecated names
(see :ghc-ticket:`11223`).
- A number of subtle but serious issues in the runtime linker were resolved on
ARM (summarized in :ghc-ticket:`11206`).
Build system
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