[m-rev.] for review: allow string.base_string_to_int to parse int.min_int literals

[Ralph Becket]

Ian MacLarty, Wednesday, 13 January 2010:
> Change string.base_string_to_int so that it doesn't fail if the base is 10 and
> the integer is int.min_int.  The previous behaviour seems unintuitive and means
> we can't use the literal -2147483648 in Mercury programs on 32 bit machines,
> even though that number can be represented in 32 bits.

What about 64 bits?
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