Proposal: Move primitive-Data.Primitive.Addr API into base

[Sven Panne]

Am Fr., 26. Okt. 2018 um 22:31 Uhr schrieb Andrew Martin <
andrew.thaddeus at gmail.com>:

> The better alternative suggested in this thread is to use Addr instead.
> That way, you don't have to lie about the type of the serialized data that
> the pointer is pointing to.
>

Even if I'm repeating myself: That is not lying, quite the opposite. If you
e.g. use a C library with suboptimal typing (i.e. more often than not), you
make the impedance matching explicit. How would you achieve that with Addr?

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