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The situation seems to be this:

* Sigbjorn is actively maintaining hslibs/win32 for Galois reasons, and is reluctant to transfer to libraries/win32 because it's untested (I'm assuming that the Green-Card dependency is soluble by putting the GC output in the CVS tree). Fair enough.

I have no motivation other than it is a useful library used by many.

GreenCard output, and output by the FFI backend in particular, is pretty clunky(*), so much so that the *.hs files in hslibs/win32 has been cleaned up quite a bit. Furthermore, GreenCard produces non-reentrant code, which is why I don't recommend it being used, libraries/Win32 or otherwise.

hslibs/win32/ doesn't improve on the non-reentrancy problem, btw.

--sigbjorn

* - having written large chunks of the current GC codebase, I feel entitled to criticize it :)

Interesting - in what sense is the greencard output non-reentrant? Do you mean that it won't work in a multithreaded app, or is it a restriction on what you can do in a callback? Cheers, Simon