[m-dev.] for review: add MR_ to Word, Integer, String, etc...

[Fergus Henderson]

On 01-Aug-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 01-Aug-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:32:36AM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> > > compiler/export.m:
> > > compiler/llds_out.m:
> > > compiler/mlds_to_c.m:
> > > 	Use MR_Word, MR_Float, MR_Bool, etc when generating C.
> > > 
> > Do you know the hoops I jumped through to get those names generated!
> > However according to the reference manual these names need to be Word,
> > String, ... and so on.
> 
> Well, backwards compatibility will be preserved for a while.

Yes, there should be a comment in runtime/mercury_bootstrap.h
about that, just like there currently is for the list_* macros.

> But I think the reference manual should be changed.

I agree.  It should be part of this change.

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