#8996: mark more things as const in C codegen ---------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: slyfox | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler (CodeGen) | Version: 7.8.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Type of failure: None/Unknown | Unknown/Multiple Test Case: | Difficulty: Unknown Blocking: | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Comment (by ezyang): The comment dates back to GHC 4.01, so it might be wrong; I can't think of any reason for the GC to be doing any scribbling here (Chars and Ints are NOCAF, so we don't need to link them together on the static_objects list; ditto for all of the other similar miscellaneous closures.). Maybe Simon knows better. In any case, it will be a moot point when is #8199 fixed, after which "static closures" absolutely must be writable since we need to update them to indirect onto blocks we've allocated. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8996#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler