[m-rev.] for review: work around bug 160

[Julien Fischer]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Paul Bone wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 03:32:52AM +0300, Peter Ross wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Julien Fischer
>> <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Peter Ross wrote:
>>>
>>>> As this bug is a real show stopper,
>>>
>>> It isn't a real showstopper; there's a simple enough workaround for it.
>>>
>>
>> Agree the workaround is simple, the issue is determining that you need
>> to apply the work around because as I understand it your program
>> silently does the wrong thing.  So you may spend a lot of time trying
>> to debug the problem.
>
> It sounds like this should go in the FAQ, or if we had one, Wiki.
> Perhaps we should maintain Eratta lists for each release.

I'll add something at the top of
<http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/download/release-10.04-bugs.html>.

I need to look into what versions of gcc are affected by the problem
first though.

Julien.
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