On Wednesday 21 May 2003 1:53 pm, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
RC 9 of the FFI Addendum is now at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/
The addendum seems to be stable and I like to close Version 1.0.
Excellent news. Thanks for all your work on this - I think we ended up with a good design!
There is only one open question: What to do about "threadsafe"? In the threads discussion, there seemed to be a tendency to not distinguish between "threadsafe" and "safe" after all. Shall we remove "threadsafe" from 1.0? That's what I tend to and will do unless there are strong arguments to retain "threadsafe".
I think it should be removed but there should be a section near the start of the document which lists open issues which would include: - bindings for other languages - issues involving threads (i.e., whatever it is that threadsafe was intended to solve). -- Alastair Reid