#6135: Unboxed Booleans ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: benl | Owner: jstolarek Type: feature request | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.4.1 Keywords: | Os: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase: Blockedby: | Blocking: Related: #605 | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by jstolarek): I'd like to finish working on this feature request. For that I need to know which approach to choose: * Add new primops and leave the old ones unmodified, or * Change the existing primops so that they return an Int# + add some wrappers (Int# -> Int# -> Bool and so on). I think that the second option will not be backwards compatible - not sure if that's acceptable. OTOH I think it would simplify GHC code in some places, i.e this change seems to be more about removing code than adding. I'm unable to decide which approach is the preferred one - people more experienced than me should decide. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/6135#comment:30 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler