[m-rev.] [reuse] diff: no aliases between primitive types

[Fergus Henderson]

On 29-Mar-2001, Nancy Mazur <Nancy.Mazur at cs.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> pa_alias.m:
> 	Before generating an alias with an argument of a
> 	construction or deconstruction unification, verify whether it's
> 	type is non-atomic. If it's atomic (int, float, char, enum, ..), 
> 	then no alias is made. 

You should think carefully about whether that is the right thing to do
for `float', which may be boxed.  (It may well be, I'm just mentioning
this in case you hadn't considered the issue.)

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