[m-rev.] For review: Improve the name mangling of foreign methods in the IL backend

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Jonathan Morgan wrote:

> On 6/7/07, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > The error message given is:
>> >
>> > mercury_compile: cannot find `foreign_type_spec.foreign_type.int' in
>> > directories ., 
>> C:/cygwin/usr/local/mercury-rotd-2007-05-26/lib/mercury/ints.
>> > foreign_type_spec.m:007: In definition of type `foreign_type_spec.ft2'/0:
>> > foreign_type_spec.m:007:   error: undefined type `foreign'/0.
>> > mercury_compile: cannot find `foreign_type_spec.int0' in directories
>> > ., C:/cygwin/usr/local/mercury-rotd-2007-05-26/lib/mercury/ints.
>> >
>> > While I'm no expert in the Mercury build system, I wouldn't expect my
>> > change to cause this problem.
>> 
>> With rotd-2006-06-06, the error I'm getting is:
>> 
>>         Uncaught Mercury exception:
>>         Software Error: mlds_to_il.m: Unexpected: IL procedure is not a 
>> function
>> 
>> which was is an assertion that your change introduced.
>> 
>> Are you sure your copy of tests is up-to-date?  foreign_type_spec was
>> failing but Simon Taylor fixed it at the beginning of May and AFAIK it
>> has been working ever since.
>
> My version of the tests and of the compiler is up to date (ignore the
> rotd-2007-05-26, as that is just what I started with), and I get the
> following output.  This is done under Cygwin, using the command mmake
> foreign_type_spec.runtest.  I don't know whether this is an error with
> my build, or with Cygwin, or what.
>
> mmc --make-private-interface --grade asm_fast.gc  --grade il
> --flags ../TESTS_FLAGS     foreign_type_spec
> mercury_compile: cannot find `foreign_type_spec.foreign_type.int3' in
> directories ., C:/cygwin/usr/local/mercury-rotd-2007-05-26/lib/mercury/ints.
> Error reading interface files.
> `foreign_type_spec.int0' not written.
> mercury_compile: cannot find `foreign_type_spec.int0' in directories
> ., C:/cygwin/usr/local/mercury-rotd-2007-05-26/lib/mercury/ints.
> Error reading interface files.
> `foreign_type_spec.foreign_type.int0' not written.
> make: *** [foreign_type_spec.date0] Error 1

Did you build the dependencies before invoking the .runtest target?
e.g.,

 	mmake foreign_type_spec.depend

Julien.
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