[m-dev.] for discussion: Proposed change to label handling

[Fergus Henderson]

On 05-Jan-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> 
> Since the jump and fast grades are theoretically broken,

To be slightly more accurate: it's only the use of PIC
(Position Independent Code) that is broken in jump and fast grades.
If you use static libraries rather than shared libraries those grades
should still work fine.

> is it worthwhile continuing supporting them?

Probably not.  But, I want to continue supporting them for benchmarking
purposes at least until I've finished the final version of our paper
on compilation to C for JFLP.

> I'm finding that fixing bugs in these grades is a real pain.

I don't mind too much if `--gc accurate' never works in those grades,
so if these bugs are specific to .agc grades, then maybe it would
be best to just disable those test cases for those grades.

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