[m-dev.] for review: pragma foreign_proc support

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Jan-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 18-Jan-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > :- pragma c_code will be supported exactly as before, we will just
> > transform it into :- pragma foreign_proc or :- pragma foreign_code
> > depending on the arity.
> 
> Why? Having :- pragma c_code with different arities mean different things
> is a wart we should fix this change. We should migrate all pragma c_code in
> the library and elsewhere to foreign_proc, and then c_code should be declared
> obsolete.

Eventually, yes.  That is indeed the long-term plan.  Tyson just means
that *in the short term* pragma c_code will be supported exactly as before.

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