Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Winapi pseudo calling conv (#277) --- recommendation: accept

We've now marked this as accepted. Thanks all! On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 9:06 AM Simon Marlow wrote:

Sounds good to me.

Cheers Simon

On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 07:44, Sandy Maguire wrote:

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Hi all,

Proposal 277 is on the topic of a psuedo calling convention for windows, where on x86 you need to use `stdcall`, but on x86_64 it should be `ccall`. The base and Win32 packages both use extensive amounts of CPP to work around this.

This proposal is to add a `winapi` calling convention that does the right thing regardless of the platform architecture.

With the caveat that I am not well versed in FFI or Windows, *my recommendation is to accept. *This is a very small proposal that can immediately be used to clean up over 650 CPP invocations throughout the ecosystem. It's clearly a problem that people are running into, and we should focus on easy quality of life improvements.

As usual, silence will be considered assent!

Best, Sandy

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