Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.
 

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:07PM +1000, Paul Bone wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:30:58AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >
> > gcc-3.4 is about to be removed from Debian (#536777). How do you plan to
> > deal with that?
>
> We use a comple of GCC extensions that cause problems with more recent versions
> of GCC, we can turn those off or use the high-level C backend. Either way, we
> can deal with it but we mightn't like to :-) since in some cases it will make
> things slower, and we don't as yet have a way to prevent this in profiling and
> debugging builds.
>

This has now been solved in newer upstream versions of Mercury.

Thanks.