Using Mercury with egcs-1.1

[Fergus Henderson]

When compiling Mercury programs using the egcs-1.1 version of gcc,
you need to use the gcc options `-fno-gcse -fno-function-cse'.
(It is possible this may also be needed for gcc 2.8.x --
I don't know for sure.)

The simplest way to do this is to apply the attached patch
to the Mercury source distribution before installing.

If you have Mercury already installed (e.g. using gcc 2.7.x),
you can manually add those options to the setting of `CFLAGS_FOR_GOTOS'
in the `mgnuc' and `mmc' scripts installed in the `bin' directory. 
Doing this is not necessary, but it may help to avoid unfortunate
surprises if/when you or your system administrator upgrades to a
new version of gcc.

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "Binaries may die
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |   but source code lives forever"
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