On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Yitzchak Gale
I wrote
Other applications and libraries that support the pragma - such as other compilers, and hs-plugins - would be required to respect the guarantee, and bugs could be filed against them if they don't.
Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
If hs-plugins were loading object code, how would it even know of the existence of the pragma? Given such knowledge, how would it implement it?
Good point. A compiler pragma is only that, in the end. This is just a hack, we can only do the best we can with it.
How does the FFI handle initialization? Presumably, we can link to
libraries that have internal state. Could someone, in principle, use
the FFI to create a global variable?
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Dave Menendez