Don Stewart wrote:
mjm2002:
On 10/13/08, Andrew Coppin wrote:
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?
This is the trick I use in Haddock and Alex, it should work fine. I don't know why GHC should have any problems with larger string literals anyway, since they get compiled into x = unpackCString "..."# if you have evidence to the contrary, please submit a bug report. (lists of other things are a different matter, which we already have open bugs for). Cheers, Simon