[m-dev.] Re: SourceForge task #24396 "Add new feature check to configure.in"

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Feb-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> runtime/mercury_bootstrap.h:
> 	Make this file define nothing unless MR_EXTRA_BACKWARDS_COMPAT is
> 	defined. This should help keep our system namespace clean.
> 
> configure.in:
> 	Check whether the installed compiler is generating namespace-clean
> 	code; if it isn't, it is not considered up to date. The test
> 	checks for some non-namespace-clean code generated by the
> 	last non-namespace-clean version of the compiler.

That looks fine.

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