José Romildo Malaquias (romildo@urano.iceb.ufop.br)
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:26:19 -0200
Hello. I have built RPM packages for hmake-1.02 and nhc98-1.02 for RedHat Linux 7.0, available from ftp://urano.iceb.ufop.br/pub/nhc98/ Romildo. =============================================================== On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:27:48PM +0000, malcolm-nhc@cs.york.ac.uk wrote: > We are pleased to announce the new release 1.02 of nhc98, a compiler > for Haskell'98, written in Haskell'98. > > http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/nhc98/ > > It is available as a source package (which can be built via ghc, hbc, > an existing nhc98 installation, or simply with a C compiler if you > don't already have a Haskell compiler installed). > > Binary packages are also currently available for ix86-Linux and > sparc-solaris2. Binary packages for other architectures can be > added to the list if users contribute them. > > > What's new > ---------- > This is an interim release, mainly fixing bugs in nhc98-1.00. > The tracing and debugging tool, Hat, is about to undergo some > significant changes, so release 1.02 is a stable snapshot before we > start to break too many things! > > Amongst the many bugfixes, notable ones are as follows: > > * Fixed a space-leak in the compiler. Compilation now > requires approximately half the previous maximum heap, > and as a result, compile times are 5-10% faster. > > * The raw speed of input and output for compiled programs is > now much faster, although you will probably only notice a > difference if your program is severely I/O-bound. > > * Local infix declarations now work correctly. > > * `newtype T a = T a' now works correctly. > > * @-pattern-bindings are fixed. This means that Happy-generated > parsers now compile correctly. > > * We now accept {-# pragmas #-} in any source position, and > understand LINE pragmas. > > Recent bugfixes and new features in Hat include: > > * When a traced program is interrupted or terminates with an error, > you get a virtual stack trace of the computation "for free", > without having to start up a browser. > > * Foreign imports (via the new common primitive FFI) with an > I/O result type are now also traced (previously only pure > foreign functions were traced). > > * Interface and object files for tracing now have distinct > file suffixes: .T.hi and .T.o. This improves matters enormously > when switching between normal and tracing versions of a program. > It also fixes some dependency bugs when building the tracing > version of the compiler. Both the compiler and hmake have > knowledge of the new suffixes. > > * Tracing versions of the following libraries have been added: > IO, Array, FFI, IOExtras. > (Still missing: Directory, System, Time, Locale, CPUTime, Random.) > > > Regards, > Malcolm > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send a message containing the word `unsubscribe' to: > nhc-users-request@cs.york.ac.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br> Departamento de Computação Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Brasil