11 Feb
2015
11 Feb
'15
5:26 a.m.
Hi, I am in a situation where it would be very useful to call C functions without an explicit FFI import. For example, I'd like to be able to do (foreign import ccall "cadd" :: CInt -> CInt -> CInt) 1 2 instead of declaring the foreign import explicitely at the top level. Is there a way to do this or to achieve similar results in some other way? If not, I imagine it would be easy to implement such a facility in GHC, given that the code implementing calling to C functions must already be present to implement "proper" FFI imports. I think such an addition would be useful in many cases. Thanks, Francesco