Re: Mercury front-end

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>]

On 30-Jan-2001, Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 
> > Here's the C side of the Mercury front-end.
> 
> The suffix .m conflicts with Objective C.  invoke.texi needs to be updated
> to document the .m and .mer suffixes and to document what .m does with a
> compiler built with both Objective C and Mercury front-ends.  Also,
> default_compilers in gcc.c should have .mer added so the driver can give a
> message that the Mercury compiler isn't installed on encountering a .mer
> file when built without Mercury support.

OK.  But `.mer' doesn't work yet.  Currently the Mercury compiler and
Mmake (the Mercury make tool) have `.m' hard-coded in various places,
unfortunately.  I'll put some documentation for `.mer' in but comment
it out with `@c' for now, until `.mer' actually works.

Thanks.

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