[m-rev.] for review: move dl.m closure creation into runtime

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Sep-2003, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> browser/dl.m:
> runtime/mercury_ho_call.{c,h}:
> 	Move the code in dl.m to create closures into the runtime.
> 	The code is actually clarified by implementing it entirely
> 	in C, rather than a mish-mash of C and Mercury.
> 
> 	The rationale for this change is that Aditi needs to be able
> 	to create closures for dynamically linked procedures.  Just
> 	copying browser/dl.m as it was into the Aditi sources would
> 	create an undesirable dependency on Mercury runtime
> 	implementation details.

Shouldn't Aditi use extras/dynamic_linking/dl.m?

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