[m-rev.] for review: handle RTTI types specially in the il grade

[Fergus Henderson]

On 01-Jul-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> The types which represent the RTTI don't have valid Mercury representations,
> hence the compiler is unable to generate correctly typed code to reference them
> using high level data on the IL backend.  Use the old lowlevel representation
> for these types instead.


That looks fine.

> +type_ctor_needs_lowlevel_rep(il, TypeName - _Arity) :-


Do we need to do the same for the Java back-end?
I suggest you add an XXX comment here, e.g.
 
        % XXX Do we need to do the same for the Java back-end?

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