For those not on the cvs mailing list:
I've applied all the changes discussed over the last 2 moniths that
received some support and no dissent.
Changes since RC5:
* Author list: changed Alastair Reid's institution
* 4.1.1: Removed [lib] from impent syntax and discussion
* 4.1.3: Added parentheses round FunPtr ft to make it easier to
understand a tolerably complex type.
* 4.1.4: Removed all mention of library objects
* 6: Specified that HsBool==int in table2
Relabelled column 1 in table 3 (C symbol -> CPP symbol)
Replaced 0 and 1 with HS_BOOL_FALSE/TRUE
You will need this file:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/grammar.sty
to build it. (I came close to adding this file to the repo but
figured that Manuel must have a reason for not having done so
himself.)
Changes not applied:
- I really, really want to resolve the ForeignPtr issues soon.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00655.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00544.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00545.html
- I'd like to see a standard way to call the GC from C
http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00565.html
Note that Hugs and GHC have had this for ages except that we call the
function 'performGC' and there's no way to control how many generations
are collected.
- I see the question of Function prototypes as a portability problem
waiting to happen. Either Hugs and GHC are right (you should use the
user-supplied header file or NHC is right (you should ignore the
header file). They can't both be right if we want portable code
so the report should be clear about which one is right.
(Given my druthers, I'd drop header files from the foreign import syntax
and say that you have to specify it on the command line or propose that
we standardize some variant of the GHCism {-# -include "foo.h" #-}. But
I'm not excited enough about it to push hard for this.)
- Changes to hs_init
http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00539.html
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Alastair Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reid Consulting (UK) Limited http://www.reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk/alastair/
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