[m-rev.] diff: disable failing `hlc' grade tests

[Fergus Henderson]

Zoltan Somogyi, you wrote:
> On 23-Oct-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 	Disable the nondet C tests for non-GC hl* grades, since it
> > 	is not yet supported in those grades (it gets a "sorry,
> > 	not implemented message).
> 
> Several months ago Fergus and I talked and agreed that nondet foreign_procs
> should be deprecated, with the reference manual updated to show how to get the
> same effect, using Mercury code to introduce nondeterminism and doing the
> low-level stuff in the foreign language. We already use the technique to
> implement string__append in the (out,out,in) mode.

That may have been the plan at one point, but I thought that in the end we
agreed that nondet foreign procs should be transformed by the front-end
into a combination of Mercury code and ordinary foreign procs.
In other words, this transformation should be done by the compiler
rather than the user.

-- 
Fergus Henderson              | Designing grand concepts is fun;
fjh at cs.mu.oz.au               | finding nitty little bugs is just work.
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh   | -- Brooks, in "The Mythical Man-Month".
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