Steps to propose a new primop in GHC

[Mitsutoshi Aoe]

I forgot to mention that I have prototype implementation:

* https://github.com/maoe/ghc/tree/traceEventBinary
*
https://github.com/maoe/ghc-trace-events/blob/feature/traceEventBinary/src/Debug/Trace/ByteString.hs#L46-L58

Some details still need to be sorted out though.

Regards,
Mitsutoshi

2018年5月28日(月) 16:23 Mitsutoshi Aoe <maoe at foldr.in>:

> Hi devs,
>
> I'm thinking to add a primop in GHC but not sure how I should proceed. The
> primop I have in mind is something like:
>
>   traceEventBinary# :: Addr# -> Int# -> State# s -> State# s
>
> This function is similar to the existing traceEvent# but it takes a chunk
> of bytes rather than a null-terminated string. It is useful to trace custom
> user events (e.g. network packet arrival timestamps in an network
> application) in eventlogs. At library level, it is supposed to be used like
> the tracing functions in Debug.Trace but with ByteString argument:
>
>   traceEventBinary :: ByteString -> a -> a
>   traceEventBinaryIO :: ByteString -> IO ()
>
> Note that this can't live in base because of the dependency on bytestring.
>
> So how should I proceed from here? Am I supposed to submit a GHC proposal
> or should I ask on the libraries list? This is not a prominently visible
> change in GHC. It rather affects only ghc-prim and no effects in base.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitsutoshi
>
>
>
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