[m-dev.] special module initialisation code

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Mar-2000, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> A simple near-term approach would be to add to mkinit.c an option
> that gives a list of C functions to call before invoking main/2.
> This avoids the problem of paging in hundreds of initialization functions
> (since usually there will be zero or one such functions), and throws the
> problem of determining the proper order back to the programmer (who has
> to give the functions in their order of invocation).

How would that be better than letting the programmer call
whatever Mercury procedures they like directly from main/2?

Is writing `C2INITFLAGS = --init-func foo --init-func bar'
in your Mmakefile really any easier than writing

	main --> foo, bar, ...

in your Mercury source file?

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