[m-rev.] for review: announce some recent bug fixes

Peter Wang novalazy at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 11:56:40 AEST 2022


On Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:42:54 +1000 Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> 
> For review by anyone.
> 
> --------------------
> 
> Announce some recent bug fixes.
> 
> NEWS:
>      As above.
> 
> Julien.
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 9e57774..56178bd 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -400,6 +400,14 @@ This is a bug-fix release.
>   * [Mantis bug #558]. We have fixed a bug that was causing some of the
>     manual pages to sometimes build incorrectly.
> 
> +* [Mantis bug #560]. We have disabled the use of the asm_fast grades on Aarch64
> +  when using GCC 9+ due to incompatibilities with position-independent code.
> +  See README.Linux-aarch64 for details.
> +
> +* We have fixed a bug that was causing assertion failures or segmentation
> +  violations in the Mercury runtime on Aarch64 Linux systems with versions
> +  of GCC before 10.

I guess neither fix is specific to Linux. Other than that, it's fine.

Peter


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