[m-rev.] Re: Diff (needs committing): Make the IL backend compile

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Jonathan Morgan wrote:

> On 5/1/06, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > With this patch (and no inlining in injection) the IL backend compiles
> > correctly.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > library/rtti_implementation.m:
> >        s/NULL/null in C# foreign code.
>
> I have discovered that not all my changes made it into the patch I
> gave you.  There is one more below.  I have no idea how this failed to
> be in the diff.
>

Fixed.  Thanks for that.

> Also, after it is compiled, the IL backend is currently broken.  For
> the simple iltest module, it produces the following:
>
> Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type
> initializer for "iltest.mercury_code" threw an exception. --->
> System.MissingFieldException: Field not found:
> mercury.private_builtin__csharp_code.mercury_code.dummy_var.
>
>    at mercury.io.mercury_code.init_state_2()
>
>    at mercury.runtime.Init.init_runtime(Boolean initialise)
>
>    at iltest.mercury_code..cctor()
>
>    --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
>
>    at iltest.mercury_code.main_2()
>
> It's obviously failing to find dummy_var, but I have no idea why, as
> dummy_var is certainly correctly defined in private_builtin.m.

At a guess, this may have something to do with the change in how dummy
types are treated by the compiler, see:

<http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/mailing-lists/mercury-reviews/mercury-reviews.200510/0023.html>

Julien.
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