I did note this commit and intend revisiting the AST generic instances [1] in future.
Alan [1] https://github.com/alanz/ghc-generic-instances On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.sc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If the unboxed types are a problem for the automatic Generic derivation, > a > > manual instance could be written instead. > > As of recently [1], -XDeriveGeneric should be capable of handing > unboxed types, so that removes one major technical limitation. I'm not > sure which unboxed types GHC's API uses off of the top of my head, but > if you need something other than Addr#, Char#, Double#, Int#, or > Word#, it wouldn't be too difficult to add support for them. > > > Ryan S. > ----- > [1] > https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/6cde981a8788b225819be28659caddc35b77972d >
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