[m-rev.] diff: FreeBSD compatibility.

[Paul Bone]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 02:07:06PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
>> +Mercury on FreeBSD
>> +==================
>> +
>> +GCC 4.2.1 Compatibility
>> +-----------------------
>> +
>> +Depending on your grade configuration Mercury may work out-of-the-box on
>> +FreeBSD 9.1.  However if you use a decldebug grade it is possible to hang
>
> Is the only problem here that the decldebug grades don't work with GCC
> 4.2.1?  If so, you should just say the following:
>
>     The default version of GCC (version 4.2.1) miscompiles code
>     generated by Mercury's decldebug grade.  This causes programs using
>     that grade to sometimes hang.  Installing GCC 4.4.7 ... etc etc
>

I'm not sure which grades are affected, I only know for certain that
decldebug is definitly affected.

My FreeBSD machine is slower than I remember so testing takes a while :-(

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Paul Bone
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