- update to 9.4.6
- remove fix_extlinks.patch and add bytestring.patch
* Fix a bug where certain dictionaries for undecidable
instances could end up looping at runtime
* Fix a compiler panic involving newtype family instances
* Fix a bug preventing using the command line
to compile .cmm files to assembly
* Fix compiler panics with certain RULE pragmas
* Fix a loop in the simplifier due to a bug in
the representation of certain fields in interface files
* Make type equality (~) checks in the presence
of quantified contrains more robust to argument ordering
* Fix some segfaults when using UnliftedDataTypes
* Improve bounds checking with -fcheck-prim-bounds
* Fix a bug in the simplifier leading to core lint errors
* Ensure array read operations have proper memory barries
* Fix a spurious -dcore-lint failure with certain kinds of type family instances
* Fix a bug with .hie files containing spurious references
to generated functions in files with partial field selectors
* With the aarch64 backend, fix a bug arising from lack
of zero-extension for 8/16 bit add/sub with immediate
* Fix a number of bugs having to do with default
representation polymorphic type variables
* Add support for top-level Addr# literals
* Fix some tag inference bugs when using the bytecode interpreter
* Support the foreign import prim calling convention in the bytecode interpreter
* Support sized literals in the bytecode interpreter
* Fix a bug with the handling of unboxed tuples in the bytecode interpreter
* Make the bytecode interpreter more robust when run on optimised code
* Accurately account for mutator allocations when using the non-moving GC (forwarded request 1103464 from mimi_vx)