Re: scope of header files

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:32:29AM -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:

Simon Marlow wrote:

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GHC...can't guarantee to generate a prototype that is exactly the same as the C prototype given in the header file (e.g. it doesn't know about const)...

Why doesn't GHC know about const?

Because the Ptr type doesn't indicate const-ness (perhaps it should).