[m-dev.] Mercury tags in C (was: tests in tests/debugger/declarative failed)

[David Glen JEFFERY]

On 16-Feb-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > So far the only types I've discovered which use hard-coded tags in C are 
> > `list/1' and `comparison_result' (found just yesterday :-).  It looks like 
> > there are some more in `trace/mercury_trace_declarative.h', which should be 
> > straightforward to fix now that I know about them.  Can anybody think of any 
> > others off the top of their head?
> 
> There are quite a few places where we assume that enumerations will
> be represented the same in Mercury as they are in C.

MCORBA does so too. (I guess it doesn't *need* to, but it simplifies things
greatly).


dgj
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