[m-rev.] for review: bootstrap with MSVC as C compiler.

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-Oct-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> 
> diff -u trace/mercury_trace_source.c trace/mercury_trace_source.c
> --- trace/mercury_trace_source.c
> +++ trace/mercury_trace_source.c
> @@ -344,10 +344,17 @@
>  		*/
>  #ifdef MR_HAVE_SLEEP
>  		sleep(1);
> -#else
> +#elif MR_HAVE_CAPITAL_S_SLEEP
>  		Sleep(1000);
> +#else
> +        /*
> +        ** busy-wait for a few billion cycles, which should hopefully
> +        ** take a second or more.
> +        */
> +        volatile int i;
> +        for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++)

Now that I think about it a bit more: better make that `long' rather than
`int', just in case we ever try porting to a system with 16-bit ints.

> +++ README.MS-VisualC	24 Oct 2002 14:50:03 -0000
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
>  configure defaults to using the hlc.gc grade as this is the only grade
>  currently supported.
>  
> +Also ensure that the environment variable TMPDIR points to a valid directory.

Which path name format should be used -- Unix or Windows?
The README needs to say which one it is.

(BTW, which program needs TMPDIR set?)

> Index: README.MS-VisualC
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MS-VisualC,v
> retrieving revision 1.2
> diff -u -r1.2 README.MS-VisualC
> --- README.MS-VisualC	30 May 2001 13:51:26 -0000	1.2
> +++ README.MS-VisualC	24 Oct 2002 16:11:38 -0000
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
>  configure defaults to using the hlc.gc grade as this is the only grade
>  currently supported.
>  
> +Also ensure that the environment variable TMPDIR points to a valid directory.

Likewise.

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