> It appears that the library Native has disappeared between 4.04 and
> 4.06, in the big hslibs reorganisation. Can we expect it to return,
> and if so, when will it come back?
I don't think it's going to return, but if there is something you rely on
from it, then we should attempt to support it in the new FFI story.
> (P.S. I'm mainly interested in showBytes, which is used within the
> nhc98 compiler. If it's not going to be possible, then I can
> probably code a workaround using the primitive FFI. However,
> I would need to know how to distinguish version 4.06 from 4.04
> using cpp-magic. What's the currently accepted practice?)
the appropriate cpp symbol is __GLASGOW_HASKELL__, as in
#if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ < 406
blah blah
#else
blah blah
#endif
Cheers,
Simon
