[GHC] #2514: Add/Expose Binary API that allows dumping of any GHC Binary instance

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#2514: Add/Expose Binary API that allows dumping of any GHC Binary instance
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    Reporter:  nominolo         |        Owner:  nominolo
        Type:  feature request  |       Status:  new     
    Priority:  normal           |    Milestone:          
   Component:  GHC API          |      Version:  6.9     
    Severity:  normal           |   Resolution:          
    Keywords:                   |     Testcase:          
Architecture:  Unknown          |           Os:  Unknown 
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Changes (by waern):

 * cc: david.waern at gmail.com (added)

Comment:

 ...you would also need the dictionary for storing FastStrings.

 But anyway:

 I think this is an important thing to get into 6.10.1, since a lot of
 applications will want to store GHC's data types in its own files, without
 having to duplicate the readBinIface / writeBinIface machinery, which is
 what Haddock currently does. Besides being ugly, the code I had copied
 from GHC doesn't work anymore with GHC 6.9, due to changes in the Binary
 module.

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