[m-rev.] trivial diff: document why the runtime is compiled with debugging enabled

[Julien Fischer]

Estimated hours taken: 0.1
Branches: main, release

runtime/Mmakefile:
	Document why the runtime is compiled with C debugging enabled.

	s/mispelt/misspelt/

Julien.

Index: Mmakefile
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/runtime/Mmakefile,v
retrieving revision 1.119
diff -u -r1.119 Mmakefile
--- Mmakefile	15 Feb 2005 05:22:31 -0000	1.119
+++ Mmakefile	26 Feb 2005 06:14:55 -0000
@@ -211,6 +211,11 @@
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#

 CFLAGS	+= $(DLL_CFLAGS) -DMERCURY_BOOTSTRAP_H -DMERCURY_CONF_BOOTSTRAP_H
+
+# We intentionally compile with C level debugging enabled so that problems
+# in the runtime can be debugged without having to recompile it.  The cost
+# of doing this is negligible.  The runtime can be compiled without
+# debugging enabled by removing the `--c-debug' flag below.
 MGNUCFLAGS	+= --c-debug --no-ansi

 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
@@ -458,7 +463,7 @@

 mercury_dotnet.cs : mercury_dotnet.cs.in
 	CONFIG_FILES=$@ CONFIG_HEADERS= $(MERCURY_DIR)/config.status
-	# check to ensure there were no mispelt autoconf variable names
+	# check to ensure there were no misspelt autoconf variable names
 	if grep -n '[^$$]@.*@' $@; then false; else true; fi

 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#

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