At 2002-08-08 03:16, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote:

Although, it's beyond me why the C standard should dictate anything about Haskell, especially the arcane and obscure dark corners of it such as the sizes of integer types. No Haskell compilers compile to pure ISO C anyway.

We need the types precisely for FFI to C, and IMO no other reason. Even then, FFI to functions using fixed-size types should use WordN/IntN types. The rest of Haskell shouldn't depend on it... although I suspect the "Int" type (which I avoid) corresponds to C "int" -- something far more likely to vary than "char". -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA