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release notes: Note some known bugs

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ARM support should be substantially more reliable as the compiler now ARM support should be substantially more reliable as the compiler now
takes precautions to avoid linking against Thumb code (<ulink takes precautions to avoid linking against Thumb code (<ulink
href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10375">Trac #10375</ulink>). href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10375">Trac #10375</ulink>).
Unfortunately the fix involved breaking some configurations. See the
entry in the "Known Bugs" section below.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
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<sect2> <sect2>
<title>Known bugs</title> <title>Known bugs</title>
<itemizedlist> <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>Cabal</literal> release shipped with this GHC release lacks
support for response files, a mechanism used on Windows to workaround the
low command-line length limit on that platform. For this reason you
may experience line length issues when building Haddock documentation with Cabal
on Windows.
</para>
<para>
At the time of release there is a <ulink
href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/1c1228a808b55331ac1db6d71fd2f8533f5fc57e">fix</ulink>
in the <literal>Cabal</literal> upstream respository, although it is not yet
present in a release.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Unfortunately the fix for
<ulink href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10375">Trac #10375</ulink>
required that support for the ARM Thumb instruction set be disabled.
See <ulink href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11058">Trac
#11058</ulink> for details.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist> </itemizedlist>
</sect2> </sect2>
</sect1> </sect1>
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