[m-rev.] diff: adjust the release notes

Paul Bone paul at bone.id.au
Wed Jan 22 13:24:52 AEDT 2020


On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 12:38:52PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> > 
> > How do people find out that they need specific settings for eg: x86 on Linux
> > because of the bug with asm_fast?
> 
> Use a version of Mercury that contains the workarounds we have put in
> place for that issue.  (rotd-2020-01-08 does not).
> 
> The configure script in will force the use of 'reg' as the LLDS base
> grade on affected i*86 systems.

Ah cool.

> > Also I tried the jump grade but it has compilation errors.  Looks like the
> > errors in mercury_stacks.c are easy to fix, but there were further errors I
> > hit after that in the standard library.
> 
> 'jump' is not a supported grade; that's why there is no user
> documentation for it.

Ah, I had jump and reg confused.


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