ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 9

[Ross Paterson]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 07:05:38PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote,
> > and HsStablePtr constrained to (void *)?
> 
> This is a kludge.  Essentially, we would like an abstract
> type and (void *) is the closest you get in C (and what is
> typically used in C APIs for the same purpose).  It is
> important to be concrete about the type to fix the storage
> requirements.

I don't follow you.  Why is it necessary to be more concrete than HsInt
and HsFloat?  We don't know exactly what they are, but we know we can use
sizeof, and assign them, etc.  Why can't HsStablePtr just be constrained
to be a scalar type?