[m-rev.] for review: NEWS file for 11.07.2

[Peter Ross]

On 16 July 2012 19:05, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Peter Ross wrote:
>
>> I generated this news file by looking at the following diff on the
>> version_11_07-branch
>>
>> # cvs diff -r version_11_07_1
>>
>> ===================================================================
>>
>>
>> Estimated hours taken: 0.5
>> Branches: 11.07
>>
>> NEWS:
>>         Upgrade the news file to reflect the changes made since 11.07.1.
>
>
> I suggest keeping it in the same style (and tense) as the previous
> entries.
>
All your suggestions have been taken.

>
>> Index: NEWS
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
>> retrieving revision 1.587.2.15
>> diff -u -r1.587.2.15 NEWS
>> --- NEWS        29 Feb 2012 01:22:02 -0000      1.587.2.15
>> +++ NEWS        16 Jul 2012 11:26:15 -0000
>> @@ -1,3 +1,44 @@
>
>> +* Improved Mac OS X support for thread local storage
>
> What change was this?
>
>From configure.in

           # XXX only attempt to use __thread with GCC on Mac OS X.
           # clang does not support it, although the above test "passes"
           # with some versions of clang.


>> +* Fix opening of binary mode files with MSVC CRT.
>
> IIRC, that also affected MinGW.
>
MinGW is just using gcc when accessing MSVC CRT.

> Also, you missed this one:
>
> <http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/mailing-lists/mercury-reviews/mercury-reviews.201203/0007.html>
>
Added

* Optimise some UTF-8 routines in the C grades and fix some bugs in these
  routines.
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