Re: New primitive types?

I think it should be mostly fine... memory alignment is my main bugbear of a worry, but I guess that requires experimentation 😊😊 On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 6:50 PM Michal Terepeta wrote:

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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:28 AM Sylvain Henry wrote: Hi,

I also think we should do this but it has a lot of ramifications: contant folding in Core, codegen, TH, etc.

Also it will break codes that use primitive types directly, so maybe it's worth a ghc proposal.

Ok, a short proposal sounds reasonable.

I don't think this would break a lot of code - based on a few searches it seems that people don't really extract `Int#` from `Int8/Int16/Int32` (similarly with words). Or am I missing something?

Thanks, Michal

PS. Sorry for slow reply - I was traveling.

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