patch applied (ghc): replace Cmm 'hint' with 'kind'

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

I suspect it's baffling because it refers to code that is not yet in the HEAD.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Norman Ramsey
| Sent: 06 May 2008 03:52
| To: Isaac Dupree
| Cc: BuildBot Collator
| Subject: Re: patch applied (ghc): replace Cmm 'hint' with 'kind'
|
|  > this place seems to allude to "hints" as well as the hacky tuple that I
|  > think is the one I fixed by turning it into a data type (so it could be put
|  > into typeclasses reasonably), but maybe isn't up-to-date, and doesn't
|  > explain it:
|  > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/BackEndTypes#Foreigncallsandhints
|
| Hmmm.  I found myself baffled by much of this text.
| I suspect that to fix it may take the combined efforts of multiple people.
|
| We have a virtual meeting of back-end boffins scheduled for this week.
|
|
| Norman
|
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