[C2hs] stdcall vs ccall

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 16:48 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Duncan Coutts
> <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 12:56 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Duncan Coutts
> >> <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 10:48 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Duncan Coutts
> >> >> <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 22:15 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> >> >> >> I have a library that uses stdcall on windows and ccall on other
> >> >> >> platforms.  I found this bug report:
> >> >> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/c2hs/ticket/17
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Does c2hs handle this case correctly yet?  The bug has not been close
> >> >> >> although a patch was submitted.  I'm not sure how to interpret that.
> >> >> >>
> >> I'd prefer to stick to things that are cabal installable, so if you
> >> don't mind making a new release that would be my preferred solution.
> >
> >
> > By the way, do let us know if the current version actually works now for
> > your use case.
> 
> Will do.  I told the author of the OpenCL bindings that I would try
> his bindings (hopefully) by this weekend.  I know he uses c2hs but I
> don't know if he uses the fun macro.  Judah also has a binding
> (hsOpenCL) that does use the fun macro.  So even if the bindings I
> plan on trying out do not make use of this feature, I can try Judah's
> bindings and report back.

Great thanks.

BTW, it should not matter whether you uses 'fun' or 'call' hooks. What
is important is that the C header file declare the calling convention
using GNU C attribute syntax.

Duncan