
3 Sep
2008
3 Sep
'08
1:30 p.m.
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. Regards, Yitz