[m-rev.] diff: treat foreign types as equivalent to c_pointer

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On 15-May-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> You should not hard-code the name "builtin".
> Instead, you should use `mercury_public_builtin_module'.
> Also, it would be simpler if you use `construct_type':
> 
> 	mercury_public_builtin_module(Builtin),
> 	construct_type(qualified(Builtin, "c_pointer") - 0, [], Type)

Actually, even that is too verbose.

	Type = c_pointer_type

is sufficient. There is such a function for pretty much all the builtin types
the compiler handles specially in type_util.m.

Zoltan.
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