[Haskell-cafe] FFI and pointers to pointers

[Simon Marlow]

On 25 April 2005 21:40, John Meacham wrote:

> 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?

We don't have any firm plans yet.  It makes sense to wait until the flow
of bug reports has slowed, and that hasn't happened yet.  But I'll take
your message as a vote for sooner rather than later.

Cheers,
	Simon