[m-dev.] for review: rename base_type_* to type_ctor_* (part 1/2)

[Fergus Henderson]

On 18-Mar-1999, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 18-Mar-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 17-Mar-1999, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > During the writing of the RTTI paper, we decided that type_ctor_info
> > > was a much better name than base_type_info.
> > > 
> > > Rename base_type* as type_ctor*, except we don't rename the modules
> > > base_type_info and base_type_layout just yet.
> > 
> > The sed script you posted has
> > 
> > 	s/type_ctor_info__/base_type_info__/g
> > 	s/type_ctor_layout__/base_type_layout__/g
> > 
> > so it looks there are some additional exceptions.
> > Could you explain why?
> 
> These aren't extra, that's just to turn the module qualifier
> `type_ctor_info__' back into `base_type_info__' (similarly for
> `type_ctor_layout__'.

Oh, I see.

> > Did you modify util/mdemangle.c and profiler/demangle.m?
> 
> No, not yet.  I will do as a separate change if that's OK.

I suppose that would be OK at a pinch.  But ideally I think it would be
better to do that at the same time, because if committed alone, this
change would effectively break the demangler.

> The only hand-written changes were:
> 	- changes to mercury_bootstrap.h
> 	- change type_ctor_info in :- import_module back to
> 	  base_type_info.

Fine.  Incidentally, for the second one, I think the sed command 

	/import_module/s/base_type_info/type_ctor_info/g

would do the trick.

Cheers,
	Fergus.

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