[m-rev.] for review: work_in_progress.html updates

[Fergus Henderson]

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Branches: main, release

compiler/notes/work_in_progress.html:
	- Delete the entry for the native code back-end,
	  since that is mentioned in NEWS file;
	  instead, just mention the gcc_3_3 branch work.

	- Provide a bit more information on a couple of the other entries.

Workspace: /home/ceres/fjh/ws-ceres2/mercury
Index: compiler/notes/work_in_progress.html
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/compiler/notes/work_in_progress.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -d -r1.1 work_in_progress.html
--- compiler/notes/work_in_progress.html	23 Oct 2002 06:30:07 -0000	1.1
+++ compiler/notes/work_in_progress.html	21 Nov 2002 06:50:45 -0000
@@ -20,17 +20,16 @@
   <a href="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/dotnet.html">`--target il'</a>
   option, which generates MSIL code for Microsoft's new
   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/">.NET Common Language Runtime</a>.
-
-<li> There is a
-  <a href=http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/download/gcc-backend.html>`--target asm'</a>
-  option, which generates assembler by
-  interfacing directly with the GCC back-end, rather than going via C.
+  We're still working on this.
 
 <li> There is a `--target java' option, which generates Java.
+     We still need to add support for Java foreign language interfacing,
+     and implement the Mercury standard library for Java.
 
 <li> Thread-safe engine (the `.par' grades).
 
 <li> Independent AND-parallelism (the `&' parallel conjunction operator).
+     See Tom Conway's PhD thesis.
 
 <li> We have added support for dynamic link libraries (DLLs) on Windows.
   This is not yet enabled by default because it has not yet been tested
@@ -83,6 +82,10 @@
   This is on the "reuse" branch of our CVS repository.
 
 <li> Better support for inter-module analysis and optimization.
+
+<li> Support for GCC 3.3 in the native code back-end.
+  This is on the "gcc_3_3" branch of our CVS repository.
+
 </ul>
 
 <hr>

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  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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