[m-dev.] for review: make tailcall loops an MLDS transformation

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-Aug-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 24-Aug-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > The user-level name for the `optimize' option is `--llds-optimize'.
> > If you want to use the same internal option for enabling/disabling MLDS
> > optimizations, that is OK, but if so you should allow `--mlds-optimize'
> > as a user-level name for the option.
> 
> Good idea. 
> 
> --- compiler/options.m	2000/08/10 05:11:01	1.286
> +++ compiler/options.m	2000/08/24 05:28:44
> @@ -1070,6 +1070,12 @@
>  long_option("follow-vars",		follow_vars).
>  long_option("allow-hijacks",		allow_hijacks).
>  
> +% MLDS optimizations
> +% Option `optimize' is used for both MLDS and LLDS optimizations, but since
> +% you can't use both at the same time it doesn't really matter.
> +long_option("mlds-optimize",		optimize).
> +long_option("mlds-optimise",		optimize).

That's good, but it should be documented in the help message and the
user guide.

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