[m-dev.] for review: typeclasses in .opt files

[Fergus Henderson]

On 02-Dec-1999, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Implement handling of typeclasses for inter-module optimization.

That change looks fine to me.

> compiler/intermod.m:
> 	Write all local typeclasses, instances, types, insts and modes to
> 	the `.opt' file, instead of trying to work out which are needed.
> 	The old code to do this missed some types, insts and modes
> 	(test case tests/valid/intermod_test.m).

It would of course be nicer to write out only the ones which are needed...
I suppose you considered this and decided that it was difficult to
implement?

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