[m-rev.] diff: www: mention problem with 0.10 and RH7.0

[Fergus Henderson]

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w3/download/include/release-0.10-bugs.inc:
	Mention the problems with RH 7.0.

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--- w3/download/include/release-0.10-bugs.inc	2001/02/24 12:54:07	1.2
+++ w3/download/include/release-0.10-bugs.inc	2001/04/04 16:31:54
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-<h2>Release 0.10.0 - Known Problems</h2>
+<h2>Release 0.10 - Known Problems</h2>
 
 The following is collected email of reported problems with release
-0.10.0 of the Mercury distribution.
+0.10 of the Mercury distribution.
 Included, where possible, are patches or work-arounds.
 There is also a
 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1126">Mercury bugs page</a>
@@ -21,6 +21,58 @@
 and even the OS kernel.  We hope that by listing the known outstanding bugs
 here we are doing our users a service.  It would be disappointing if
 anyone were to infer the wrong thing from it.
+<p>
+<hr>
+<p>
+Subject: Mercury 0.10 on RH Linux 7.0
+<p>
+Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001
+<p>
+Hi,<p>
+    Not really a Mercury bug, but the new version of Mercury causes a gcc
+internal compiler error. Any workarounds?
+<p>
+gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)
+<p>
+<pre>
+Here's the error
+...
+mercury_trace_alias.c: In function `MR_trace_remove_alias':
+mercury_trace_alias.c:95: Unable to find a register to spill in class
+`SIREG'.
+...
+mercury_trace_alias.c:95: Internal compiler error in spill_failure, at
+reload1.c:1826
+Please submit a full bug report.
+See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html> for instructions.
+</pre>
+<p>
+<i>
+	[Suggested work-around is to install from the
+	binary distribution rather than the source distribution.
+	We'd appreciate feedback on whether that work-around works.]
+</i>
+
+<hr>
+<br>
+Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995
+<p>
+The following module causes an "undefined variable Inf" error in the
+generated C code, because 1E400 == Infinity, which gets printed as `Inf'.
+<p>
+<pre>
+:- module hello.
+:- interface.
+:- import_module io.
+
+:- pred main(io__state::di, io__state::uo) is det.
+
+:- implementation.
+
+main -->
+	io__write_float(1E400),
+	io__write_string("\n").
+</pre>
 <p>
 <hr>
 <p>

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