[m-rev.] for review: automatically generate all type_ctor_infos on non C backends

[Peter Ross]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Peter Ross wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:40:44PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > On 19-Nov-2003, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > > Index: compiler/type_util.m
> > ...
> > > +	% Remove any of the qualifiers from the builtin types.
> > > +:- func remove_qualifiers_from_the_builtin_types(type) = (type).
> > 
> > I suggest s/the qualifiers/the "builtin." qualifiers/
> > 
> > The implementation doesn't match the documentation, since
> > the implementation only removes qualifiers from some of the builtin
> > types, not all of them.  E.g. it doesn't remove qualifiers from
> > "builtin.c_pointer".
> > 
> I am doing some more investigation about this point.  It appears that we
> only need to remove the qualifiers for the types which appear in
> private_builtin.m with a unify predicate.
> 
It is needed so that the types whose special predicates are defined in 
private_builtin.m can typecheck, as the typechecker barfs on these names
if they are qualified.

I have moved the code from type_util to make_hlds and renamed the
predicate adjust_types_with_special_preds_in_private_builtin and added a
comment about type checking.
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