On Monday 27 March 2006 16:33, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Thorkil, i can't understand why you can't just use FFI to import functions you required? why you need to patch the PrimOps list? Hello,
As I wrote earlier, using FFI is also a candidate for getting access to additional GMP functions. However, presently, I am not aware of a method of doing this that does not involve some potentially significant additional overhead. After all, Haskell Integers are not directly supported in C, so some sort of marshalling and/or intricate access to internal GHC Haskell structures would seem to be required. But, as you have perhaps seen (my reply to Simon Marlow a few minutes ago on the same matter), adding primitive operations turned out to be easy (at least if you know exactly what you are doing). In addition, I have found that this method with very little effort allows me to continue to write code that can be used both via Hugs and GHC without change. Thanks and regards Thorkil