Extension to the FFI to allow macro expansions to be avoided

[Ross Paterson]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:18:24AM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote:
> Now that I understand the problem, my feeling is that the problem is not with 
> curses but with GHC's compilation method.  GHC is using a shortcut by 
> pretending that the ffi is for interfacing to cpp+C whereas the ffi is quite 
> clear that it is for interfacing to C.  So, I think the thing to do is fix 
> GHC.

And Hugs too.  The issue isn't extending the FFI but implementing it
more accurately and consistently.  As you point out, systems compiling
via C have been extending the FFI to a function+macro interface, which is
incompatible with systems compiling to native code.  Having been bitten by
the same thing in the opposite direction (macros that work with ffihugs
or ghc -fvia-C don't work with ghc -fasm), I'd favour turning off the
macro interface, preferably with #undef, at least by default.