Re: FFI & C++

Many platforms have the C++ runtime and the C++ standard library as a static library (probably because the C++ ABI is not as stable as it should be...). I think this applies to both Mac OS and to Windows [mingw32], perhaps it's the same with Solaris. If that is the case, it would explain the problem, I think. GHCi can't load static libraries [yet - the ar format shouldn't be too difficult to implement], so everything that's needed from static libraries has to be linked into the ghc binary and probably also listed in Linker.c (who else doesn't like those hard-coded symbol references?) Just my EUR 0.02 :-) Cheers, Wolfgang