[m-dev.] for review: cleanup of tabling

[Fergus Henderson]

On 28-Dec-1999, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> runtime/mercury_wrapper.c:
> 	When debugging tabling, set stdout to be line buffered.

What's the rationale for that change?

> +++ runtime/mercury_wrapper.c	1999/12/25 08:17:25
> @@ -284,6 +284,12 @@
>  	process_args(argc, argv);
>  	process_environment_options();
>  
> +#ifdef	MR_TABLE_DEBUG
> +	if (MR_tabledebug) {
> +		setlinebuf(stdout);
> +	}
> +#endif

The setlinebuf() function is not part of ANSI/ISO C;
for portability, you should use the ANSI/ISO setvbuf() function instead.

It would be better to put that code next to the existing calls
to setvbuf(), so that all the changes to the buffering of stdout
are in the same place.

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