FYI — I just pushed this; validation went through, and a simple test of the
new functionality succeeds.
I put a verbose comment in Note [Initializing globals] in CoreMonad.
commit 163de25813d12764aa5ded1666af7c06fee0d67e
Author: Nicolas Frisby
Nick****
** **
Reading your (excellent) reply to Joachim, that would be an excellent thing to do.****
** **
Please comment it copiously with a concrete example (a la Joachim).****
** **
Simon****
** **
*From:* ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] *On Behalf Of *Nicolas Frisby *Sent:* 03 July 2013 20:22 *To:* ghc-devs@haskell.org *Subject:* add FastString.string_table to CoreMonad.reinitializeGlobals?** **
** **
Was the FastString Table intentionally left out of the reinitializeGlobals mechanism?****
** **
This has lead to some confusion in using pieces of the front-end within GHC plugins. ****
** **
Is there foreseeable harm in adding it? I've done so locally, and minimal testing seems fine.****
** **
Thanks.****