[m-dev.] io__write and arrays

[Fergus Henderson]

David Glen JEFFERY, you wrote:
> 
> At the moment, it would just print out the pointer that Mercury is hanging on
> to. This is because c_pointer is (abstractly) defined as
> 
>     :- type c_pointer == int.
> 
> in mercury_builtin.m.

Incidentally, that definition is a hack which can cause non-logical
behaviour.  It might be better to replace it with a definition that
aborts if you try to compare two c_pointers for equality.

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