[m-dev.] diff: compare and unify arrays in hlc grade

[Peter Ross]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:56:35AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 09-Nov-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > I have since tested this change and it appears to work.
> ...
> > runtime/mercury.c:
> >     Implement the compare and unify operations for arrays in the hlc
> >     grade.
> 
> The problem with this change is that it creates a reference from the 
> Mercury runtime to the Mercury standard library.  This contravenes
> our policy of not having any such references.  The reason for this
> policy is that such references break DLL support on Windows, and
> lead to less efficient shared library support on other systems.
> 
> The right solution is probably to move that definition into
> library/array.m.  (Another possible alternative is to add a
> new function pointer variable in the runtime and to get mkinit.c
> to initialize that function pointer with the address of the
> function in the library.)
> 
that way makes more sense to me, I will do it tonight.

Pete
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