[m-rev.] for review: allow execution of incomplete programs

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Feb-2003, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Once this change is committed and installed, I'd like to remove all of
> the calls to sorry/1 in the standard library, and build the library with
> `--allow-stubs --no-warn-stubs' if the grade is `il' or `java'.  This will
> ensure that (1) we don't accidentally have any stubs undefined for the
> C back-end and (2) by using `--warn-stubs' intead of `--no-warn-stubs',
> we can get a list of all of the functions which are not yet implemented
> for a given back-end.

I just realized that I can go ahead and make this second change without
needing to wait for the first one to be installed, because the compiler
would still be able to bootstrap with the C back-ends.  There would
only be a bootstrapping issue for the `il' grade, and that isn't
a serious problem because people can bootstrap them compiler in C,
install it, and then use the `il' grade.

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.
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