> I have just come up against an application where I would like
> the user to be
> able (if required) to link in a file containing a set of
> default options to the
> application. So what I would IDEALLY like is
> (1) the ability for FFI to give me access to an external
> value as well as an external
> function, as in
> foreign import "default_arguments" defaultArguments :: Addr
We have this. It's called "foreign label", but it's in an obscure part of
the documentation - you're not the first person to miss it :)
> (2) the ability for FFI to link in values as weak external
> references. (In other words
> the reference doesn't have to be resolved and you can
> find out if it has been.)
> So assuming (1) has been implemented, I might want
> something additionally like
> foreign import weak "default_arguments"
> getDefaultArguments :: IO (Maybe Addr)
> Now while I would LIKE these features, they aren't there, and
> it won't cause me great
> distress to work around their absence. But why not implement
> them anyway?
Do you know how to use existing support for weak references in the
linker/assembler? I believe GNU as/ld has them, but I can't find any
reference in the docs.
Alternatively we'd have to implement this using something like dlsym, which
only looks for references in shared libraries.
Cheers,
Simon
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