#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 simonmar): I'd rather see the existing primops changed to return `Int#` (or `Word#`) than to add new primops. There's no need to have both. But of course it's a deeper change - we'd have to add wrappers that implement the old primops and make sure that we have enough RULEs to get rid of any extra `tagToEnum#` calls. But I think it would ultimately be better that way, the Bool-returning primops are a hack. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/6135#comment:27 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler