[m-rev.] diff: bug in outputting mercury and foreign type declarations in .opt file

[Peter Ross]

fjh wrote:
> On 12-Dec-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 10-Dec-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > > I have built a test case for this, but the problems only shows up when
you
> > > build the .opt file in say a C grade and use the .opt file when
building
> > > in the IL grade.
> >
> > That's not a bug -- the `.opt' files are grade dependent.
> > If this is causing test failures, the correct fix is probably
> > to put `GRADEFLAGS-test = il' in Mercury.options.
>
> I think the issue shows up when running the tests against a workspace
> (e.g. when the tests get run from tools/bootcheck).
> The workspace typically gets compiled with a C grade,
> but the IL tests need a .opt file that was built with an IL grade.
>
No the problem shows up with installed compilers, because only the copy of
the .opt files built with the default grade are installed,  So when they are
used to compile an IL program you always get an error, about only a C
foreign type for io:buffer being available.


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