document Mercury front-end on gcc web page

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> This change adds Mercury to the list at < http://gcc.gnu.org/frontends.html >.
> OK to commit?

Yes, thanks!

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> +<li><a href=" http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/download/gcc-backend.html ">
> +Mercury</a>, a declarative logic/functional language.
> +The University of Melbourne Mercury compiler is written in Mercury;
> +originally it compiled via C but now it also has a back-end that generates
                                                         ^^^

(I believe we use "backend" most of the time, as you did in your URL. Once
some native speaking editor for a scientific journal asked me to change a
paper to use the version with the dash, but Richard Kenner convinced me to
omit the dash for the GCC web pages.)

Gerald
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