[m-rev.] diff: disable closure layouts for non-C targets

[Fergus Henderson]

On 06-Mar-2002, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> Well it certainly helped me.  Here is a diff which bootchecks in the
> hlc.gc grade and passes all the tests.  It also solves the problems the
> IL backend experienced.
> 
> Any objections to checking this in?

No, please go ahead and check it in.

> compiler/ml_closure_gen.m:
>     A tvar_vector is an array of ints, not a pointer to an int, so use
>     that for the type of vector.  Without this change closure layouts do
>     not compile on the IL back-end as a pointer to an int is not the
>     same thing as an array of ints, as it is on the C back-end.

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