[ghc-steering-committee] Winapi pseudo calling conv (#277) --- recommendation: accept

[Sandy Maguire]

We've now marked this as accepted. Thanks all!

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 9:06 AM Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds good to me.
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 07:44, Sandy Maguire <sandy at sandymaguire.me> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Proposal 277 is on the topic of a psuedo calling convention for windows,
>> where on x86 you need to use `stdcall`, but on x86_64 it should be `ccall`.
>> The base and Win32 packages both use extensive amounts of CPP to work
>> around this.
>>
>> This proposal is to add a `winapi` calling convention that does the right
>> thing regardless of the platform architecture.
>>
>> With the caveat that I am not well versed in FFI or Windows, *my
>> recommendation is to accept. *This is a very small proposal that can
>> immediately be used to clean up over 650 CPP invocations throughout the
>> ecosystem. It's clearly a problem that people are running into, and we
>> should focus on easy quality of life improvements.
>>
>> As usual, silence will be considered assent!
>>
>> Best,
>> Sandy
>>
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