[m-dev.] IL grade

[Tyson Dowd]

On 16-May-2002, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 15-May-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > > > - definitions for undefined library types (c_pointer, type_desc)
> > 
> > Can you consider using pragma foreign_type for all of these types.  This
> > avoids any casts plus it will allow easier porting to the IL backend.
> 
> But the type_desc is not a foreign type; it is a builtin type. The compiler can
> be taught to handle them specially just like it handles integers and floats
> specially in the foreign language interface.

I didn't think there was necessarily a distinction between foreign types
and builtin types like this.  I thought we could implement a builtin
type as a foreign type if we wished.

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