[m-rev.] for review: update GCC back-end web page

[Simon Taylor]

On 01-Aug-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 01-Aug-2001, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > On 01-Aug-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > The GCC back-end is now integrated with GCC 3.0 and now passes all of the
> > > appropriate tests in the Mercury test suite.  So it's basically ready for an
> > > official release.  Here's an update for the web page.
> > 
> > How often does the GCC 3.0 optimizer bug you reported occur
> > with the LLDS backend?
> 
> Every time.  It breaks "hello world". 

In that case you need to add some documentation to the GCC back-end
page (and the download/release.html page ) to recommend that users only
use GCC 3.0 for the GCC back-end, and keep an older GCC (e.g. 2.95.3)
around for use when compiling using other grades.

Simon.
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