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] from impent syntax and discussion * 4.1.3: Added parentheses round FunPtr ft to make it easier to understand a tolerably complex type. * 4.1.4: Removed all mention of library objects * 6: Specified that HsBool==int in table2 Relabelled column 1 in table 3 (C symbol -> CPP symbol) Replaced 0 and 1 with HS_BOOL_FALSE/TRUE You will need this file: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/grammar.sty to build it. (I came close to adding this file to the repo but figured that Manuel must have a reason for not having done so himself.) Changes not applied: - I really, really want to resolve the ForeignPtr issues soon. http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00655.html http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00544.html http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00545.html - 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 see the question of Function prototypes as a portability problem waiting to happen. Either Hugs and GHC are right (you should use the user-supplied header file or NHC is right (you should ignore the header file). They can't both be right if we want portable code so the report should be clear about which one is right. (Given my druthers, I'd drop header files from the foreign import syntax and say that you have to specify it on the command line or propose that we standardize some variant of the GHCism {-# -include "foo.h" #-}. But I'm not excited enough about it to push hard for this.) - Changes to hs_init http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg00539.html -- Alastair Reid alastair@reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk Reid Consulting (UK) Limited http://www.reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk/alastair/