[mercury-users] Mercury IL and Managed C++

[Peter Ross]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:55:56PM +1100, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:27:12PM +1100, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> > > How much does the IL backend for Mercury depend on managed C++?
> > > :-foreign_proc("MC++") seems to be only used in benchmarking.m in the
> > > Mercury standard library - most of it uses C#.
> > > Is it that MC++ is used for the code Mercury generates, or just that the
> > > Mercury team has replaced MC++ code with IL/C#?  With these results,
> would
> > > it be feasible to use the Mercury standard library on Mono/DotGnu?
> > >
> 
> I notice that, after I use mmc --make --grade il in the samples directory,
> the Mercury directory has a few new directories, including ils, cpps, and
> css.  Are these only for use if the MC++ and C# foreign language interfaces
> are used, or will they require a MC++ (Microsoft) compiler to build
> regardless of whether you have any MC++ code in the actual Mercury code?
> 
If no you have no MC++ code, then the MS C++ compiler will never be
called, so yes the directory will remain empty.
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