[m-rev.] for pre-commit review: workaround Mantis bug #453

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Julien Fischer wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Peter Wang wrote:
>
>>  On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:15:08 +1100 (AEDT), Julien Fischer
>>  <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>
>>>  I propose that we simply use 'reg' as the default LLDS base grade on the
>>>  affected systems.  Furthermore, we make 'hlc' the default base grade
>>>  on systems where the default LLDS base grade is 'reg'.
>>>
>>>  Given that this only affects i*86 systems, I don't think it's worth
>>>  spending much further effort on it, at least for the purposes of the
>>>  20.01 release.
>>
>>  Ok.
>>
>>  I think instead of your original patch, we should be setting
>>     mercury_cv_asm_labels=no
>>     mercury_cv_gcc_labels=no
>>
>>  as in the attached patch.
>
> Yes, that's a better approach.  Can you please go ahead and commit
> that one.

I assume no-one has any objections to the second part of what a I
proposed above, namely forcing the default base grade to be 'hlc' when
the llds base grade is 'reg'.

Julien.