[m-dev.] for review: compiler-generated procedures

[Fergus Henderson]

On 30-Sep-1999, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> The code we were creating for the comparison procedure of an enumerated type
> called mercury__compare_3_3, which called the comparison procedure of the
> enumerated type (whose address was in the compare slot of the type_ctor_info).
> This was an infinite loop. I think it only used to work because higher-order
> specialization specialized the call to mercury__compare_3_3, but specialization
> is turned off for debugging.

Yes.  Specialization is also turned off at -O0 and -O1.
This bug is currently causing looping problems with the nightly/weekly
tests on taifun, kryten, and munta.  So it would be great if you
could commit the fix for that one sometime soon.

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