[m-dev.] for review: document bootstrapping tag procedure
Mark Anthony BROWN
dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Jul 19 14:15:39 AEST 1999
Tyson Dowd writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> Fergus -- since I had to look up the mail archive to find this
> message I thought I'd document it somewhere easy to find and
> add a suggested format for the tag.
>
> ===================================================================
>
>
> Estimated hours taken: 0.5
>
> compiler/notes/bootstrapping.html:
> Document the procedure for setting tags with changes that
> stop bootstrapping with previous version of the compiler.
>
>
> Index: bootstrapping.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: bootstrapping.html
> diff -N bootstrapping.html
> --- /dev/null Thu Mar 4 04:20:11 1999
> +++ bootstrapping.html Mon Jul 19 11:54:55 1999
> @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
> +
> +<html>
> +<head>
> +<title>
> + Bootstrapping
> +</title>
> +</head>
> +
> +<body
> + bgcolor="#ffffff"
> + text="#000000"
> +>
> +
> +
> +<hr>
> +
> +<h2> Changes that don't bootstrap </h2>
> +
> +<p>
> +
> +Sometimes changes need to be made to the Mercury system that mean
> +previous versions of the compiler will no longer successfully compile.
> +<p>
It is unclear whether "compile" refers to compiling the previous
version, or compiling *with* the previous version. I'd change it to
something like "...no longer successfully compile the new version."
Cheers,
Mark.
--
Mark Brown, PhD student )O+ | "Another of Fortran's breakthroughs
(m.brown at cs.mu.oz.au) | was the GOTO statement, which was...
Dept. of Computer Science and Software | uniquely simple and understandable"
Engineering, University of Melbourne | -- IEEE, 1994
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