System.Info.os

[Ross Paterson]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:30:48AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> > FFI stubs are generated and compiled by ffihugs.  I'm guessing that
> > Neil hasn't worried about hooking in ffihugs because the old winhugs
> > predates ffihugs, and batch compilation doesn't fit very well with the
> > interactive environment.
> 
> I don't use FFI, so i haven't really looked at it at all. Having said
> that, some examples such as the Win32 examples I think use FFI, and
> they work fine - although I have no idea what they are actually doing
> beneath the surface.

When (Win)Hugs loads a module that uses the FFI, it also loads a
corresponding .dll file that was previously created by processing the
module with ffihugs.  So interactive development of modules using FFI
is problematic.