Extension to the FFI to allow macro expansions to be avoided

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Apr-2004, Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.

I'd rather fix GHC so that interfacing with C macros works with ghc -fasm.
The equivalent works fine with the Mercury implementation ("mmc --target asm"
generates assembler for the Mercury code and C stubs for the FFI glue),
so it's clearly possible.

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