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Use of InstallShield is a thing of the past

Automagically insert links to the documentation of the OpenGL/GLUT
packages iff --enable-hopengl is used

Corrected and normalized HTML

Fix a couple of links in the announcement

Perhaps defining _REENTRANT when gcc-compiling for the alpha would
help with RTS threading problems

printDump,printErrs,printSDoc: flush stdout and stderr

Fix trivial bug in WorkWrap that killed all INLINE pragmas!  Merge to STABLE

Improve error message; merge to STABLE

Fix a GC bug.  In a "large block", only the block descriptor for the
head of the block has the fields step, gen_no and flags set.  So
whenever we want one of these fields in the descriptor for a random
object anywhere in the large block, we have to check whether it is in
the head block, and if not follow the link to the head block
descriptor.

evacuate() was doing this correctly, but isAlive() wasn't (and
goodness knows what other places are broken in this way - I identified
several other possible cases of the same bug).

So to try to make things more robust, when we allocate a large block
we now initialise the step, gen_no, and flags fields in the descriptor
for *every* sub-block, not just the first one.  Now, as long as you
only want one of these fields from the descriptor, there's no need to
try to find the block head.  evacuate() gets minutely faster, and
hopefully multiple obscure bugs are fixed by this.

change #ifdef USING_LIBBFD to #if defined(DEBUG) && defined(HAVE_LIBBFD).

Fix a bug in the handling of libbfd - we should be checking for DEBUG
in $(GhcRtsHcOpts) not $(GhcHcOpts), and we can get HAVE_LIBBFD from
config.h so there's no need to unconditionally define USING_LIBBFD.

awaitEvent: better handling of EBADFs, i.e., don't
unconditionally barf() and exit if select() reports
an EBADF. See source code comments for details, but
in short, we attempt to unblock all threads to handle
the error condition before bailing out.

If only select() would indicate which file descriptor
that was the bad one.

(There's no good reason why select() errors other
than EBADF could also be handled this way, but let's
focus on it for now..)

gcc versionitis wrt gcc -E -MM .. usage:

2.95.<wurble> is silent on stdout if -MM is used, 2.96 ain't
(even when -o is used..hmm.) 2.95 (on mingw32) even fails if
you try to redirect the output.

So, be more accepting in first trying to run CPP with a redirect,
and if that fails, try without.

merge rev. 1.1.6.1

Improve error message

	*** MERGE TO STABLE BRANCH ***

Fixed my email address

Remove duplicate line in Linker.c

	*** MERGE TO STABLE BRANCH ***

HEAD is now 5.05

Reverted to check for `null srcs' (instead of `null real_srcs') to determine
whether to throw "no input files".  Otherwise, something like

  ghc -o foo ObjectGeneratedByGHC.o

doesn't work anymore.

isSourceFile: widened to also return True for .hc files

5.04

When validating the number of source files on the command-line wrt other
options, only consider source files. i.e., don't consider .a's and .o's
that inadvertently, and idempotently, might be present.

Allow module names up to 50 chars wide without misalignment of the
profiling table.  For example: "Graphics.UI.ObjectIO.Process.Toolbar"
no longer messes up the output.

The output is now well over 80 chars wide now.

Fix error message

In hPutLitString, catch the empty string case before calling hPutBuf.
Some older versions of hPutBufFull choke on a zero-length buffer.

Fixes occasional problems with the Sparc native code generator, which
uses SLIT("") in a couple of places.

Mingw32 has problems with "long long" display so convert to float output.

comment out para mentioning old ghc-win32 page; doesn't contain all that much useful info any longer

updated external core frontend info

Remove -fcore option, a NOP. (The Core frontend is enabled by feeding
GHC .hcr files.)

added a note about MacOS X support

version 5.04

Announce for 5.04

Small fix to the documentation installation

Remove old BIN_DIST specific stuff

Remove the stuff on building the documentation to the building guide.

Add documentation on building the documentation.  (I've moved the
section on building documentation from the User's Guide, it doesn't
really seem appropriate there).

Reorder sections of type-system extensions

Direct the punter to GHC.Exts rather than GHC.Prim.

After loading a package, set the context to something sensible

Note that literate Haskell is not supported by hsc2hs at the moment