[m-rev.] for review: update NEWS for 13.05.1

[Julien Fischer]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:44:03PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >>> +
> >>> +* Various build problems on Solaris and NetBSD have been fixed.
> >>> +* The C# compiler for use by the csharp grade can now be specified
> using
> >>> +  a new option to the configure script, `--with-csharp-compiler'.
>  This
> >>> +  fixes a problem where it was not possible to build the Mercury
> libraries
> >>> +  in the csharp grade against version 4.0 of the .NET framework using
> >>> +  Mono.  (See README.CSharp for further details.)
> >>> +* In C grades, closing a file stream multiple times no longer causes a
> >>> +  segmentation fault on Linux.  (Bug #161)
> >>
> >> Not really Linux specific.
> >
> > I'll delete that bit.  (Although on some sytems, for example Mac OS X, it
> > never caused a seg fault.)
> >
>
> Rather than say "causes a segmentation fault on Linux" you could say "can
> cause a segmentation fault on some systems".
>

That's pretty much what I ended up saying.


>
> What are the problems on non-linux systems?  Because then you could say
> "corrupts memory state and may cause a segmentation fault (on some
> systems)", or similar.
>

On Mac OS X (the only other one I looked at) there wasn't a problem.
Cheers,
Julien.






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