[m-rev.] for review: add termination foreign proc attributes

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Oct-2003, Julien Fischer <juliensf at students.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Change the how the termination analyser treats foreign procs in the
> absence of any user-supplied information.  The old behaviour was to
> treat all foreign procs as terminating; we now consider only those that
> do not make any calls back to Mercury as terminating.  Foreign procs
> that do make calls back to Mercury now considered to be non-terminating.

What's the rationale for these changes?

(I'm sure they are probably a good idea, but the log message
should say something about the rationale.)

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