Re: Updates to FFI spec

2002-08-11 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Alastair Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, 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]

Re: Library archives

2002-08-11 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I see a lot of discussion about header files. I see a small amount of discussion of libraries with many conflicting suggestions. I see no _conclusion_. Ok, I can't see the conclusion either, but I seem to recall that at one stage the library

Re: Updates to FFI spec

2002-08-11 Thread Alastair Reid
- 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 don't have a