Generating Function Prototypes

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2002-07-03 09:23, Simon Marlow wrote:

>> Of course, this ignores the detail that while the C compilers are
>> generating correct code, they may also be generating warnings about
>> alleged type errors - which can be a bit disconcerting.
>
>It is an error, not just a warning, if the prototypes don't match.  GCC
>will complain loudly if there's a missing 'const' - it won't generate
>any code at all.

For 'foreign import' this won't happen, will it? The Haskell compiler can 
generate its own prototype as well as the call to the function. The only 
thing that matters is that the calling conventions for const and 
non-const pointers are the same...

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA