[m-dev.] grades for MLDS back-end

[Peter Schachte]

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 07:47:21PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to introduce some new options and grades for the MLDS back-end.
> 
> 	grade		options
> 	-----		-------
> 	hl		--high-level-code --high-level-data
> 	hlc		--high-level-code
> 	hl_nest		--high-level-code --gcc-nested-functions
> 	hlc_nest	--high-level-code --high-level-data --gcc-nested-functions

Presumably these need to be combined with a choice of garbage
collector (or none), trailing or not, and various debugging options.
That makes for a *lot* of grades.  A full installation of each library
file in each mmc-supportted grade is starting to get pretty big.  Can
you explain why these are worth that complication?  In particular,
what does --high-level-data mean and why not just always use it?
Also, your description of nested functions doesn't make it sound
terribly useful; why is it worth the introduction of yet more grades?


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