[m-rev.] for review: improve release documentation

[Simon Taylor]

On 01-Aug-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 01-Aug-2001, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > Index: download/include/release.inc
> ...
> > +         <p>
> > +         We recommend GCC 2.95.*. Other recent releases may also work.
> > +         <p>
> > +         GCC 3.0 will NOT work. It has bugs which cause internal compiler
> > +         errors when compiling the C code generated by the Mercury compiler.
> > +         It should only be used for the
> > +         <a href="<?echo $root?>/download/gcc-backend.html">GCC back-end</a>.
> 
> I suggest s/GCC back-end/Mercury compiler's GCC back-end/
> or s/GCC back-end/Mercury compiler's native-code back-end/

--- release.inc	2001/08/01 12:30:52	1.1
+++ release.inc	2001/08/01 12:34:54
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@
          <p>
          GCC 3.0 will NOT work. It has bugs which cause internal compiler
          errors when compiling the C code generated by the Mercury compiler.
-         It should only be used for the
-         <a href="<?echo $root?>/download/gcc-backend.html">GCC back-end</a>.
+         It should only be used for the Mercury compiler's
+         <a href="<?echo $root?>/download/gcc-backend.html">native-code back-end</a>.
          <p>
          Avoid GCC 2.96 (distributed with Red Hat Linux 7.x) and
          other unofficial releases of GCC.
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