27 Aug
2018
27 Aug
'18
6:42 p.m.
Phyx
Oh and also, neither of those tickets you linked to should prevent you from using a newer GHC to make shared libraries.
the Rts.h headers are nothing but convenience functions and you can just create the prototypes you need in your own headers.
That being said, I think it would be much better if GHC's headers would accommodate C++ compilers, as Herbert suggested in #14784. I suspect we aren't using much C99 in the headers anyways. Perhaps we should just start by trying a conservative C++11 guard and tighten it later if we find earlier language versions would work. Cheers, - Ben