Discussion of these changes can be found on the Mercury developers
mailing list archives from June 2018.
COPYING.LIB:
Add a special linking exception to the LGPL.
*:
Update references to COPYING.LIB.
Clean up some minor errors that have accumulated in copyright
messages.
Branches: main
On the Java backend, use specialised MethodPtr interfaces so that when calling
a method pointer input arguments do not have to be passed via a temporary
array, for arities up to 15. For higher arities the temporary array is still
used.
java/runtime/MethodPtr.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr1.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr10.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr11.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr12.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr13.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr14.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr15.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr2.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr3.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr4.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr5.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr6.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr7.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr8.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtr9.java:
java/runtime/MethodPtrN.java:
Add specialised MethodPtr interfaces and MethodPtrN for any higher
arities.
compiler/mlds_to_java.m:
Make the code generator use the specialised MethodPtr interfaces.
library/Mmakefile:
Compile java/runtime/*.java files explicitly as some MethodPtr*.java
files won't be compiled implicitly when compiling the standard library.
library/exception.m:
java/runtime/Exception.java:
library/rtti_implementation.m:
Conform to changes.