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

[Sandy Maguire]

Link to the proposal:
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/277

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 8:44 AM 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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