On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Yitzchak Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote >>> Other applications and libraries that support the pragma - >>> such as other compilers, and hs-plugins - would be >>> required to respect the guarantee, and bugs could be >>> filed against them if they don't. > > Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote: >> If hs-plugins were loading object code, how would it even >> know of the existence of the pragma? Given such >> knowledge, how would it implement it? > > Good point. A compiler pragma is only that, in the end. > This is just a hack, we can only do the best we can > with it.
How does the FFI handle initialization? Presumably, we can link to libraries that have internal state. Could someone, in principle, use the FFI to create a global variable? -- Dave Menendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
