[m-dev.] mainline regression: io.buffer vs ISO C

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-Jan-2003, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 10:48:27PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > That changes the semantics -- for non-GC grades, this will allocate on
> > the C heap rather than the Mercury heap, with the result being that the
> > memory will not get reclaimed on backtracking.  This is bad.
> > Also, for GC grades, it doesn't mark the block as atomic, which it
> > definitely should.
> > 
> > Could you please fix that?
>
> I will fix it when I get a chance.  Now I need to work on some other
> miscrit stuff and I may not get back to Mercury until February.

In that case, please back out your change.

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