[m-rev.] diff: extras/concurrency/semaphore.m

[Fergus Henderson]

On 25-Jun-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Can anyone explain why code in the extras directory has this kind of low-level
> knowledge of the runtime system?

The code in question needs that kind of low-level knowledge,
and `extras' is where we decided to put additional libraries
that are not part of the Mercury standard library, even if
they need such low-level knowledge.

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