[m-rev.] for review: announce MinGW64 port

[Paul Bone]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 11:27:32PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> For review by anyone.
> ---------------------------
> 
> Announce the MinGW64 port.
> 
> NEWS:
> 	As above.
> 
> README.MinGW:
> 	Extend the instructions here to describe to build the MinGW64
> 	port of Mercury.  (They are pretty much identical to those
> 	of the MinGW port, except for one additional configuration
> 	option.)
> 
> 	Delete the stuff about configure invoking the Microsoft
> 	Management Console; that was fixed some time ago.
> 
> Julien.
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 3a44f7c..601a61b 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Changes to the Mercury standard library:
>  * We have added predicates to the calendar module for folding over the days
>    in a given range of dates: foldl_days/5, foldl2_days/7 and  foldl3_days/9.
> 
> +Changes to the Mercury compiler:
> +
> +* Generation of 64-bit code on Windows using the MinGW64 port of GCC
> +  is now supported, i.e. the x86_64-w64-mingw32 architecture is now
> +  supported.
> +

I'd prefer an active sentance here.  "Mercury now supports generation ...",
But dismiss this suggestion of most of the rest of the enties are already in
the passive voice.

The rest of the change is fine.

Thanks.


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