Re: scope of header files

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:41:56PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:

c2hs has to read the header files on your system to be able to check any consistency.

I'm not sure why hsc2hs is the minimal tool. It relies on a C compiler where c2hs does not. What happens with Haskell implementations that do not bundle a C compiler (eg ghc in future on win32)?

Hmm... I am not quite sure how c2hs works then. like, how can it figure out the offsets of fields in data structures without knowing the field layout algorithm for a given architecture/os combo without invoking a c compiler? Though, if there were a way to figure that stuff out without a c compiler in a portable way, that would be cool. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈