[m-dev.] For review: Add implementation of reference types (global heap)

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Jun 10 02:55:50 AEST 1998


On 09-Jun-1998, Peter Schachte <pets at students.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> One thing I forgot to mention last time:  I think the permanent copy
> functions (whatever they're called now) should be documented somewhere. 
> They could be quite generally useful (notwithstanding the problems with
> accurate garbage collection).  I don't know what the right place is for such
> documentation, though.  This seems like it could be viewed as an extension
> of the C interface, so maybe that's the place to document it.  Fergus? 

Yes, the "Memory management" subsection of the "C interface" documentation
in the Mercury language reference manual looks like the right place.

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