cvs commit: hugs98/src/unix convert_libraries

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:58:23 +0100


> ross        2002/08/28 22:23:28 PDT
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     src/unix             convert_libraries=20
>   Log:
>   Track recent libraries changes: modules defined by the FFI Addendum
>   have moved from hslib/lang to libraries/haskell98, so we move them
>   from oldlib to libraries.
>  =20
>   This is change breaks backward compatibility in that Int and Word no
>   longer export named conversion functions -- fromIntegral is=20
>   preferred.

Yes, sorry - I figured these had been deprecated for long enough in GHC,
but perhaps not in Hugs.  For Hugs, you might want to track the
5-04-branch for the libraries at least for the forthcoming release, if
backwards compatibility would otherwise be a problem.

Cheers,
	Simon