[m-rev.] for review: a step towards Mercury-level RTTI for Java and IL

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-May-2002, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Instead of the type_ctor_info being broken down into its components in
> type_ctor_info.m, the breakdown process is now performed in rtti_out.m (for the
> LLDS backend) and rtti_to_mlds.m (for the MLDS backend). Eventually, the IL and
> Java backends will stop using rtti_to_mlds.m for this purpose, and will instead
> write out the type_ctor_data structures as static data to be interpreted
> directly.

Why?  IMHO for the MLDS back-ends all output should go via the MLDS
data structure.

> compiler/rtti_to_mlsd.m:

s/mlsd/mlds/

[... to be continued ...]

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