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Alexander Kaznacheev
GHC
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Ben Gamari
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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Language
- GHC now parses visible, dependent quantifiers (as proposed in
`GHC proposal 35
<https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/00
35
-forall-arrow.rst>`__),
<https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/00
81
-forall-arrow.rst>`__),
such as the following: ::
data Proxy :: forall k -> k -> Type
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@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Language
enable :ghc-flag:`-XRankNTypes` in ``B`` to accept the inferred type signature.
- Type family dependencies (also known as injective type families)
sometimes now need
`
`-XUndecidableInstances`
`
in order to be
sometimes now need
:ghc-flag:
`-XUndecidableInstances` in order to be
accepted. Here is an example::
type family F1 a = r | r -> a
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@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Language
type instance F2 [a] = Maybe (F1 a)
Because GHC needs to look under a type family to see that ``a`` is determined
by the right-hand side of ``F2``\'s equation, this now needs
`
`-XUndecidableInstances`
`
.
by the right-hand side of ``F2``\'s equation, this now needs
:ghc-flag:
`-XUndecidableInstances`.
The problem is very much akin to its need to detect some functional dependencies.
Compiler
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@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Compiler
redundant or unused uses of a record wildcard match.
- Calls to ``memset`` and ``memcpy`` are now unrolled more aggressively
and the produced code is more efficient on
`
x86
_
64
`
with added
and the produced code is more efficient on x86
-
64 with added
support for 64-bit ``MOV``\s. In particular, ``setByteArray#`` and
``copyByteArray#`` calls that were not optimized before, now will
be. See :ghc-ticket:`16052`.
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@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ Compiler
the sample start event contains a timestamp of when the census occurred.
The retainer profiling events are emitted using the standard events.
- The eventlog now
log
s the cost centre stack on each sample. This
enables
the ``.prof`` file to be partially reconstructed from the eventlog.
- The eventlog now
record
s the cost centre stack on each
profiler
sample. This
enables
the ``.prof`` file to be partially reconstructed from the eventlog.
- Add new flag :ghc-flag:`-fkeep-going` which makes the compiler
continue as far as it can despite errors.
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@@ -194,8 +194,8 @@ Compiler
will be removed in a later version of GHC.
- Windows bindist has been updated to GCC 9.2 and binutils 2.32. These binaries have
been patched to no longer have have the MAX_PATH limit. Windows users
should no longer
have any issues with long path names.
been patched to no longer have have the
``
MAX_PATH
``
limit. Windows users
should no longer
have any issues with long path names.
- Introduce ``DynFlags`` plugins, that allow users to modidy the ``DynFlags``
that GHC is going to use when processing a set of files, from plugins.
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