Re: Storable laws

7 Mar 2018

      On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 11:13 AM, John Wiegley  wrote:
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"EL" == Evan Laforge  writes:
EL> If you are writing a new C binding, I recommend something higher-level
EL> than hsc2hs, such as c2hs, which I think should sidestep the problem
EL> entirely by verifying your types. But if you are already using hsc2hs and
EL> for whatever reason don't want subtle memory corruption bugs, you can
EL> import ForeignC instead of Foreign and Foreign.C, and see if you have any.
Note that c2hsc is even higher, since it will generate the .hsc files for you
from the C headers.
So many C FFI tools.  Is there a survey somewhere?

That might have saved me some time long ago, when it seemed like the
only choices were green card and hsc2hs, and green card was already
somewhat obsolete looking.  But come to think of it, I don't even know
why...