[m-rev.] already reviewed: mkinit -A

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:

> This has already been reviewed by Ralph. Changes to the compiler to take
> advantage of the new capability will come after we submit the paper.
>
> Zoltan.
>
> util/mkinit.c:
> 	Add a mechanism that allows users to insert a call to a specified
> 	function into the mercury_init function generated by mkinit. The
> 	intention is that this should be used to initialize constraint stores
> 	in program using constraint solvers. The store cannot be initialized
> 	when the C global variable holding it is defined if the C global points
> 	to a Mercury term.
>

Great, I've been wanting something like that for a while.  It will
also be useful for a number of the bindings to graphics libraries
that we have.

Julien.

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