[m-rev.] diff: update gcc back-end web page
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sat Mar 24 13:50:42 AEDT 2001
Estimated hours taken: 0.25
Branches: main
Update the Mercury front-end/GCC back-end web page.
w3/download/gcc-backend.php3:
Change the title of the page to "Mercury front-end for GCC".
w3/download/include/gcc-backend.inc:
Mention that we pass most of the test cases.
Workspace: /mnt/murlibobo/home/mercury0/fjh/mercury
Index: w3/download/gcc-backend.php3
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/download/gcc-backend.php3,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -d -r1.2 gcc-backend.php3
--- w3/download/gcc-backend.php3 2001/03/23 23:35:16 1.2
+++ w3/download/gcc-backend.php3 2001/03/24 02:41:37
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<HTML>
<?
$menu="Download";
- $title="GCC back-end / Mercury front-end";
+ $title="Mercury front-end for GCC";
$dir="download";
$root="..";
$include="gcc-backend.inc";
Index: w3/download/include/gcc-backend.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/download/include/gcc-backend.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -d -r1.3 gcc-backend.inc
--- w3/download/include/gcc-backend.inc 2001/02/27 17:40:38 1.3
+++ w3/download/include/gcc-backend.inc 2001/03/24 02:49:57
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
including C, C++, Ada, Fortran, Java, and now Mercury.
<p>
+<H3>Status</H3>
The current version of the Mercury native code compiler should be
considered a beta release. It is based on an unreleased snapshot
@@ -18,6 +19,12 @@
<p>
+The native code compiler bootstraps, and passes all of the tests in
+our test suite, except for those that use nested modules or tabled
+evaluation, which are not yet implemented.
+
+<p>
+
The version of the GCC back-end interface included in Mercury 0.10
had a bug that often caused the compiler to abort. The work-around
for that is to compile with `--no-optimize-initializations'.
@@ -30,7 +37,7 @@
in the mercury-gcc distribution (see below).
<p>
-<H3>Sources</H2>
+<H3>Sources</H3>
The sources for the Mercury native code compiler come in three parts:
--
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au> | "I have always known that the pursuit
| of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.
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