Proposal #2: marshalling utilites

[Fergus Henderson]

On 06-Dec-2000, Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:
> [someone (Sven Panne?) wrote:]
> >    * errno *is* a thread local thing, of course.
> 
> Not a Haskell thread local thing, unfortunately.  I *really* don't want
> to have a private errno in each Haskell thread object, which gets copied
> in after every foreign call.  Anyone have any bright ideas here?

Well, you could have a private errno in each Haskell thread object,
which gets copied in at every Haskell thread switch...

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