[m-rev.] diff: delete a very old FAQ entry

Julien Fischer jfischer at opturion.com
Mon Feb 9 21:05:06 AEDT 2026


Delete a very old FAQ entry.

doc/mercury_faq.texi:
    Delete an entry concerning GCC 2.6.3, which was released in
    1994.

Julien.

diff --git a/doc/mercury_faq.texi b/doc/mercury_faq.texi
index d095ccd79..7098bd2de 100644
--- a/doc/mercury_faq.texi
+++ b/doc/mercury_faq.texi
@@ -254,20 +254,6 @@ must temporarily alias two variables together,
 and the current mode checker does not allow this.
 This limitation will go away in the future.

- at sp 1
- at item
- at emph{I'm getting an error from the C compiler:}
- at example
-foo.c:45: initializer is not computable at load time
- at end example
- at sp 1
-
-You're using an old version of @samp{gcc}.
-Check that the version of @samp{gcc} in your PATH is version 2.6.3 or later.
-Mercury does not (at the current time) support versions of gcc earlier
-than 2.6.3.  (Using the @samp{--no-static-ground-terms} option may also solve
-this problem, but results in less efficient code.)
-
 @end enumerate

 @node Last resort


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