On 02 September 2004 11:36, Ross Paterson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:39:30PM -0700, John Meacham wrote:
I should mention I have a new version of the CWString library in development that conforms to the new FFI spec and works on all posixy systems, not just those that have unicode wchar_t's like my first posting.
It is not quite ready for release, but if there is a strong need I can package it up nicely.
The most useful packaging would be as a patch against the HEAD version of fptools/libraries/base/Foreign/C/String.hs
There may also be a difficulty in that you may require hsc2hs but I think Simon wants to keep it out of low-level modules (?).
Yes, using hsc2hs in libraries/base is problematic for bootstrapping reasons - it adds inconvenient extra steps to the process of bootstrapping GHC on a new platform, so please avoid it. Outside of the libraries required for building GHC, hsc2hs is fair game. Cheers, Simon