[m-rev.] for review: some more rtti for java

[Peter Wang]

On 2010-01-20, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >compiler/mlds_to_java.m:
> >compiler/builtin_lib_types.m:
> >       Map *_desc types to TypeInfo_Struct, TypeCtorInfo_Struct,
> >       PseudoTypeInfo_Struct.  We cannot simply use
> >       `:- pragma foreign_type("Java", ...)' in the library as the compiler
> >       will complain about missing type definitions for other language
> >       backends.
> 
> Can't you just provide a dummy Mercury type definition fo rhte non-Java
> backends?

No, that causes other problems.  I don't remember the exact details as I
started this patch a few months ago.

Peter
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