ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 15

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Release Candidate 15 with all the changes discussed since
RC13 is now available from

  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/

The only open problem are a set of questions raised by Simon
and Ross to which I have previously answered with another
set of questions (see the attached message), which is were
the discussion stopped.  In order to get it going again, I
propose the following:

* We require from a FFI library implementation only that it
  supports CWString and the associated functions on
  platforms, which are Marlow sensible.

* On other platforms a FFI library is free to do what it
  wants (eg, not support these functions at all or attempt
  to implement something similar).

And here now a probably naive question of mine: Does the
notion of Marlow sensibility coincide with platforms that
follow ISO/IEC 10646?

Cheers,
Manuel

-=-

Changes since RC14:
* 6.2: CWChar -> CWchar
* 6.3: - CWChar -> CWchar
       - Stated explicitly that memory allocated by `newCString' and friends
         can be deallocated by `MarshalAlloc.free'
       - Improved documentation

Changes since RC13:
* 5.3: Fixed typo
* 5.7: Fixed a mistake in the type of `peekByteOff' and `pokeByteOff' (the
       type variable constrained by `Storable' must be different from the
       parameter of the `Ptr')
* 6.3: Improved documentation
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