#11953: Export Word32#, Word64# on all architectures -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by carter): Would also perhaps be worth considering adding a WordNative# and associated lifted sibling that is explicitly guaranteed to match native pointer / max addressable virtual memory? For ghc that would always been one of Word32 or Word64 sized, whichever is currently also called Word, but that's only a result of ghc specific rts and compilation strategy choices rather than being part of the language standard. A large number of current libraries make that assumption in their data structure rep and it's not guaranteed to be true at all by any specification currently. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11953#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler