#7015: Add support for 'static' -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: edsko | Owner: Type: feature | Status: patch request | Milestone: 7.10.1 Priority: normal | Version: 7.4.2 Component: Compiler | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Operating System: | Difficulty: Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Type of failure: | Related Tickets: None/Unknown | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: Phab:D550 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by Austin Seipp ): In [changeset:"fc45f32491313d2a44e72d8d59cdf95b1660189d/ghc"]: {{{ #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc" revision="fc45f32491313d2a44e72d8d59cdf95b1660189d" Implement -XStaticValues Summary: As proposed in [1], this extension introduces a new syntactic form `static e`, where `e :: a` can be any closed expression. The static form produces a value of type `StaticPtr a`, which works as a reference that programs can "dereference" to get the value of `e` back. References are like `Ptr`s, except that they are stable across invocations of a program. The relevant wiki pages are [2, 3], which describe the motivation/ideas and implementation plan respectively. [1] Jeff Epstein, Andrew P. Black, and Simon Peyton-Jones. Towards Haskell in the cloud. SIGPLAN Not., 46(12):118–129, September 2011. ISSN 0362-1340. [2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StaticPointers [3] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StaticPointers/ImplementationPlan Authored-by: Facundo Domínguez Authored-by: Mathieu Boespflug Authored-by: Alexander Vershilov Test Plan: `./validate` Reviewers: hvr, simonmar, simonpj, austin Reviewed By: simonpj, austin Subscribers: qnikst, bgamari, mboes, carter, thomie, goldfire Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D550 GHC Trac Issues: #7015 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7015#comment:38 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler