news.txt updates; fixes bootstrapping

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/system.nim b/lib/system.nim
index 3e8c17324..1805dd813 100644
--- a/lib/system.nim
+++ b/lib/system.nim
@@ -3266,9 +3266,10 @@ template `..<`*(a, b: expr): expr =
   ## '..' and '<' is required.
   a .. <b
 
-proc xlen*(x: string): int {.magic: "XLenStr", noSideEffect.}
-proc xlen*[T](x: seq[T]): int {.magic: "XLenSeq", noSideEffect.}
+proc xlen*(x: string): int {.magic: "XLenStr", noSideEffect.} = discard
+proc xlen*[T](x: seq[T]): int {.magic: "XLenSeq", noSideEffect.} =
   ## returns the length of a sequence or a string without testing for 'nil'.
   ## This is an optimization that rarely makes sense.
+  discard
 
 {.pop.} #{.push warning[GcMem]: off.}