[m-dev.] List of Bugs to fix??

[Fergus Henderson]

On 14-Sep-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 11-Sep-1998, Peter Ross <petdr at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > Are you still going to parcel out that list of bugs to fix?
> 
> Well, here's a few to get people started.
> This is just the test cases that are currently failing.
> 
> 	dgj:
> 		tests/valid/instance_unconstrained_tvar
> 
> 	zs:
> 		tests/hard_coded/nondet_ctrl_vn
> 
> 	stayl:
> 		tests/hard_coded/cut_test (still not working)
> 
> 	trd (or perhaps dgj, if he has already done some work on
>       this -- please consult each other):
> 		runtime/mercury_engine.c fails to compile in grade `jump',
> 		with the error message "initializer element is not constant".

I also parcelled out (via email) bugs for conway and bromage to
investigate and/or fix.  There's one for petdr below.
If anyone is feeling left out, please let me know ;-)

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One class of bugs in the bug report list is porting bugs, including
difficulty porting to non-gcc compilers.  We really ought to be testing
the compiler with at least one non-gcc C compiler.  We have lcc installed
on kryten (in /home/mercury/public/lcc-3.4b/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/bin),
and the Mercury User's guide gives directions on how to compile Mercury
with a non-gcc C compiler.  I'd like someone to try following those
instructions and to investigate any problems that they run into.
Could you have a go at this, Peter?

Ideally in fact we should run such tests on a regular basis, so
it would be great if you could update the nightly test scripts
accordingly.

Cheers,
	Fergus.

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