Would you review/test my FFI library?

Hi, I've been working over the last months in what I call a "preprocessor DSL for Haskell FFI" :) It started as a crude attempt, with many problems. But by now it has evolved and been sharped into something that I want to recomend as a professional quality tool for practical FFI. By professional, I just mean it generates reliable, predictable code, and the code you write using it is portable and extremely easy to write and, even more, maintain. I have to warn: it isn't really intelectually exciting. Don't waste your time with it, unless you have a recurrent need for FFI. I started it from a professional need, and it's not more than a small set of preprocessor macros for hsc2hs. I have been able to use it, though, to get bindings to very extensive C libraries in just a few hours. The main idea in this tool is to shift the way Haskell power is applied over C code. Instead of mixing Haskell code and C names, we write an almost transparent layer over C. On top of that, we will then write our Haskell code. Although that FFI layer is just "C on Haskell", you get a lot of flexibility in the Haskell cover. Here it is, documentation, hackage package and an example from DirectFB types: http://bitbucket.org/mauricio/bindings-common http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bindings-common http://bitbucket.org/mauricio/bindings-directfb/src/tip/src/Bindings/DirectF... I appreciate any comments you have, specially problems you see. Thanks, Maurício
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Maurício CA