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

Zoltan Somogyi zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Oct 3 14:05:46 AEST 2003


On 03-Oct-2003, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 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.

However, my intuition tells me that termination analysis *shouldn'* take
the sizes of type_info variables into account. Even if it did, it wouldn't
make any immediate difference, since as of now, termination analysis considers
the sizes of typeinfos to be zero.

Zoltan.
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