[m-dev.] Are targets becoming extinct?

[Eric Taucher]

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> From: owner-mercury-developers at csse.unimelb.edu.au [mailto:owner-mercury-
> developers at csse.unimelb.edu.au] On Behalf Of Julien Fischer
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:52 PM
> To: Mercury Developers
> Subject: Re: [m-dev.] Are targets becoming extinct?
> 
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Eric Taucher wrote:
> >
> >> When the recent code with pretty_printer.m was compiled with GRADE=il, an
> >> error
> >> was generated.
> >> Pretty_printer.m:824 Error: foreign_name mutable attribute not yet
> >> implemented
> >> for the IL backend.
> >>
> >> This leads to make_hlds_passes.m and shows that this error also applies to
> >>
> >>       target_il
> >>       target_java
> >>       target_asm
> >>       target_x86_64
> >>
> >> Are these targets on the endangered or extinct list?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > The error message seems a bit odd since none of the mutables in
> > pretty_printer.m have a foreign_name attribute.  I'll take a look at it.
> 
> The fact that this error message is being printed is a bug.  The
> compiler should be reporting that mutables are not (yet) supported with
> the IL backend.  I should have a fix for this soon (the error message,
> not the lack of support for mutables.)

Thanks. 

> 
> Julien.
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