[m-rev.] for review: fix termination analysis bug

[Fergus Henderson]

On 03-Oct-2003, Julien Fischer <juliensf at students.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Fix a bug that caused the termination analyser to abort when using
> the `num-data-elems' norm whilst analysing code that (de)constructs
> existentially typed data types.
> 
> compiler/term_util.m:
> 	When building the weight table add any type_infos to the list
> 	of non-recursive arguments otherwise term_util.functor_norm/9 will
> 	throw an exception when processing an existentially typed data item.
> 	When calculating the weight do not add arguments that correspond
> 	to type_info related variables.

Hmm... my intuition is that termination analysis probably ought to take
the sizes of type_info variables into account, otherwise it won't be
able to infer termination of any procedure which recursively
deconstructs types, e.g. io__write_univ.

So I'm not sure that this is the best fix in the long term.
But it does at least look like an improvement on the status quo.

I suggest adding an XXX comment about the above point.
Otherwise, this looks fine.

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