cvs commit: fptools/libraries/base/Foreign/C String.hs

[Ross Paterson]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:01:42PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 22 June 2004 13:46, Ross Paterson wrote:
> 
> > ross        2004/06/22 05:45:55 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     libraries/base/Foreign/C String.hs
> >   Log:
> >   Change the interface (but not the implementation) to match the FFI
> > spec: 
> > 
> >   * added charIsRepresentable, *CAString and *CWString
> > 
> >   * currently (and in violation of the spec), fooCString = fooCAString
> > 
> >   * The WString versions use UTF-16 under Windows and UTF-32 elsewhere
> >     (valid only if the compiler defines __STDC_ISO_10646__).
> > 
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.14      +289 -60   fptools/libraries/base/Foreign/C/String.hs
> 
> Thanks Ross, I can cross that off my ToDo list now :-)

There's still the byte encoding part to keep on your list.  But you may
wish to switch things that care more about performance than Unicode from
*CString to *CAString first.  Also the byte encodings seem to need
hsc2hs -- do you want to keep that out of Foreign.C.String?