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

[Simon Taylor]

On 22-Nov-2004, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 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.

If there are no known bugs, that message shouldn't be in the BUGS
file either, because it just creates FUD in the minds of the users.

Simon.
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