[Haskell-cafe] FFI and pointers to pointers

John Meacham john at repetae.net
Mon Apr 25 16:39:42 EDT 2005


On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:51:04PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> The syntax you want is
> 
>   foreign import ccall "&bar" :: Ptr CInt
> 
> But note that GHC 6.4 has a bug whereby this doesn't work as expected
> when compiling via C.  Either use the native code generator (-fasm) or
> wait for 6.4.1.

Any ETA on 6.4.1? I am debating whether to rewrite code to work around
this bug or just wait for the point-release?
        John

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