[m-rev.] Trivial diff: fix hlc.par segfaults

[Simon Taylor]

On 05-Nov-2004, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
 
> Index: NEWS
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
> retrieving revision 1.344
> diff -u -r1.344 NEWS
> --- NEWS	12 Oct 2004 06:55:41 -0000	1.344
> +++ NEWS	4 Nov 2004 23:29:21 -0000
> @@ -267,6 +267,11 @@
>  
>  Changes to the Mercury compiler:
>  
> +* Due to personnel changes and semantic problems in the design of
> +  POSIX threads and problems in the implementations thereof that we have tried,
> +  we cannot guarantee that we will be able to fix low-level concurrency bugs in
> +  .par grades.
> +
>  * We have added optional support for a new type-accurate garbage collector
>    as an alternative to using the Boehm et al conservative collector.
>  

That should be in BUGS, not NEWS.  It would also be helpful to describe
the "low-level concurrency bugs", and say whether .par grades are actually
usable.

Simon.
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