[m-rev.] for review: Upgrade Boehm GC to v7.6.2

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Peter Wang wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 21:58:33 -0500 (EST), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>> The upgraded collector is available in rotd-2018-01-09.  I've tested on
>> OS X (10.11) and it seems fine; I'll check Windows over the next few
>> days.  If you have something running Alpine Linux available (or anything else
>> using the musl libc), could you please check that the rotd-2018-01-09
>> source distribution works on it and let me know.
>
> Hi Julien,
>
> It works correctly under Alpine Linux as well.

Ta.  Could you please review the following change to the
webpage as well.

Cheers,
Julien.

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Announce musl libc.

news/newsdb.inc:
     As above.

diff --git a/news/newsdb.inc b/news/newsdb.inc
index ebc735d..465d21e 100644
--- a/news/newsdb.inc
+++ b/news/newsdb.inc
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@

  $newsdb = array(

+"9th January 2018" => array(
+"musl libc support",
+"Mercury now works with systems that use the <a href=\"https://www.musl-libc.org\">musl</a>
+C library."),
+
  "13th June 2017" => array(
  "Unsigned Integers",
  "We have added a new builtin primitive type: uint.