Trying to build HDIRECT with ghc-5.00.2

[Simon Marlow]

I'm probably about to get my head bitten off for this, but here goes:
would it be possible to move H/Direct in the direction of using the FFI
libs?  For a few reasons:

  - deprecated features are going to be removed at some point.
    In fact, I've removed them all in the new Core Libraries.

  - there's lots of duplicated functionality.
 
  - one might be able to mix H/Direct and hand-written FFI code.

I realise this would probably be a lot of work, but then of course
H/Direct will benefit from improvements to the FFI libs, like
stack-allocation (if I ever get around to doing it).

Cheers,
	Simon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sigbjorn Finne [mailto:sof at galconn.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:46 PM
> To: Simon Peyton-Jones; ahey at iee.org
> Cc: ffi at haskell.org
> Subject: Re: Trying to build HDIRECT with ghc-5.00.2
> 
> 
> No, it was just a bug that was introduced somewhere
> on the road to GHC5. The version of Int in the repo does
> the right thing now.
> 
> --sigbjorn
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj at microsoft.com>
> To: "Sigbjorn Finne" <sof at galconn.com>; <ahey at iee.org>
> Cc: <ffi at haskell.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 01:04
> Subject: RE: Trying to build HDIRECT with ghc-5.00.2
> 
> 
> > | (*) - ghc-5.00.2 give Int.sizeofInt{8,...} the type Int32; 
> > | HDirect generated sources assume Word32 (as it should be). => 
> > | you may need to tweak the generated code in a select few 
> > | places to make ghc-5.00.2 happy.
> > 
> > Sigbjorn: 
> > 
> > Are you suggesting a change to the Int module?  It would
> > be nice to settle ethis so that no tweaking was reqd.
> > 
> > I'm ccing the FFI list as that seems the right place to decide.
> > 
> > Simon
> 
> 
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