[m-rev.] for prelim review: remove hand-coded RTTI

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Nov-2003, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> With the change below I can now build the standard library in the il
> grade and no longer require hand-coded RTTI for int.
> 
> So far all I have done is satisfy myself that it works for int, however
> I would like some confirmation that there is nothing fundamentally wrong
> with this approach, plus any suggestions on how the approach could be
> improved.

I think the approach looks OK.

Does the compiler inline builtin_compare_int into the definition of the
new automatically-generated comparison procedure for int?
That's pretty important.

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