[m-dev.] for review: merge HAL branch onto main branch
David Jeffery
dgj at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Feb 19 14:53:50 AEDT 2001
On 15-Feb-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > +
> > + % Output a `dummy' ptag layout, for use by tags that aren't *real*
> > + % tags, such as the tag reserved when --reserve-tag is on.
> > +:- pred output_dummy_ptag_layout_defns(io__state::di, io__state::uo) is det.
> > +
> > +output_dummy_ptag_layout_defns -->
> > + io__write_string("\t{ 0, MR_SECTAG_NONE, NULL },\n").
>
> Hmm... there's lots of code in the Mercury runtime system which won't
> work with such a dummy ptag layout.
>
> What were you planning on doing about that?
>
> I think that warrants at least an XXX comment.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here... perhaps I need to add the following
to the comment?:
% This dummy layout should never actually be referenced; the ptag that
% this layout refers to should never actually be used by Mercury.
Does that make it clearer?
dgj
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