#5218: Add unpackCStringLen# to create Strings from string literals -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: tibbe | Owner: thoughtpolice Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.0.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Type of failure: Runtime | Unknown/Multiple performance bug | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #5877 #10064 | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonmar): The Unarise pass removes unboxed tuple binders and arguments, so it would be passed as two separate arguments. However, unarise is currently part of SimplStg, so GHCi doesn't get to take advantage of it, I don't know how hard that is to change. Maybe @osa1 or @simonpj would know. Backwards compatibility is a separate issue, we can always introduce new APIs instead of breaking old ones, I doubt there are serious problems here. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5218#comment:44 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler