> What's Knit?
A component language for C. Announcement attached.
> Why not just distribute binaries for the platforms of interest?
People feel uncomfortable if they can't build from source themselves.
Generating binaries for a decent range of platforms is a bunch of work
(especially given the
I am reasonably convinced by the need for an extensible attribute-style
specification such as Marcin has been proposing. However I am also
intrigued by Alastair's "interesting" interpretation of one of my
earlier suggestions, and it led me to the following proposal, modifying
Marcin's design for
On 23-Feb-2001, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I agree. Would it be fixed by just #including Stg.h after any
> -#includes, or would that create more problems?
ghc uses gcc global register variables on x86, doesn't it?
If so, they need to be declared first thing, before any functio
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Fergus Henderson wrote:
>
> > OK, now how about things where you need to #define symbols before
> > including the header file?
>
> Choose one:
> 1. Write a forwarding header which #defines and #includes.
> 2. Use compiler-specific switches to get #defines (-D and
> -optc
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Simon Marlow wrote:
> I agree. Would it be fixed by just #including Stg.h after any
> -#includes, or would that create more problems?
If HsFFI.h indirectly includes system headers, then I'm afraid it's
not enough for hsc2hs, which automatically includes HsFFI.h before
user-
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> OK, now how about things where you need to #define symbols before
> including the header file?
Choose one:
1. Write a forwarding header which #defines and #includes.
2. Use compiler-specific switches to get #defines (-D and -optc-D in ghc).
3. Exten
On 22-Feb-2001, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:08:22 -, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
>
> > Don't forget you might need multiple includes, eg. &
> > for socket(), and ordering is important.
>
> Easy with my proposal:
>
> foreign import
On 22-Feb-2001, Alastair Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While on the subject of preprocessors, I thought I'd mention a need I've found
> in distributing tools like Knit where the intended audience isn't expected to:
What's Knit?
> 1) Care either way about it being implemented in Haskell
>
>
> > hsc2hs is in ghc-4.11.
>
> Did I miss the last 3 releases? I'm still stuck with
> something between 4.08.1
> and 4.08.2 waiting for a debian package and freebsd port to
> appear for 4.08.2.
> :-)
4.11 is the current devel version, which will be released as 5.00.
I submitted the 4.08.2 po
