Re: [Haskell-cafe] Multi-line string literals are both easy /and/elegant in Haskell

mjm2002:

On 10/13/08, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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Cool. Is there any progress on getting GHC to *not* freak out when you ask it to compile a CAF containing several hundred KB of string literal? :-}

Yes and no. There's dons' compiled-constants pkg which has a solution:

http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/compiled-constants/

And the code below would do all the haskell-side work for importing the data from C, but I'm not aware of a way to have ghc not freak out if it has to compile a huge amount of static data.

Hiding it inside an unboxed string constant? i.e. "this be bits"# Or does GHC still freak? - Don