[m-rev.] for review: add MR_GC_register_finalizer

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Julien Fischer wrote:

> Estimated hours taken: 0.5
> Branches: main
>
> Add an interface to the Boehm collectors finalisation mechanism to the
> Mercury runtime.  Mercury bindings to C libraries sometimes
> require this facility in order to reclaim memory when some of the
> memory is under the control of an external library.
> Since we may support alternative garbage collectors in the future, it
> is preferable that the Mercury runtime provide this facility rather
> than user code directly calling the code in Boehm.
>
> runtime/mercury_memory.h:
> 	Add a wrapper macro for GC_REGISTER_FINALIZER.

In the absence of any review comments, I will commit this as is.

Julien.
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