Re: Importing a reference to a non-function entity.

Simon Marlow wrote: [snip]

I believe you meant to say

foreign import ccall "&default_options" defaultOptions :: CString.Cstring

:-) (see the latest FFI addendum at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/) [snip]

Yes, it works, brilliant! And I can specify the C header file too, rather than having to hack it unreliably using a pragma at the top of the file.