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

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Nov 22 11:01:52 AEDT 2004


On 05-Nov-2004, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Simon Taylor, Friday,  5 November 2004:
> > 
> > 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.

I agree, please don't put that in the NEWS file.

> Good point.  The message is in NEWS not because anything has changed or
> broken in the compiler/library, but because we no longer have any group
> members who fully understand the .par code.

Well, I still read this newsgroup on occaision, and I still have a
reasonable understanding of the .par code.  If there are bugs in the
.par grades, I'm at least willing to have a look at them when I get
a chance.  But I'm not aware of any such bugs.

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