[m-dev.] for review: begin type_ctor_* simplification

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Apr-1999, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 08-Apr-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > When you make the next part of it, the part that requires this change
> > to bootstrap, remember to modify configure.in to change the bootstrapping
> > test to detect this.
> 
> In the past we have only modified the bootstrapping test at release time.
> Are you proposing we change our policy to try to make it always correct?

Yes.  Otherwise it's too easy for people who download the release-of-the-day
to shoot themselves in the foot.

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