[Haskell-cafe] modeling ANSI C structs in Haskell?

[Peter Gammie]

Vasili,

On 04/02/2008, at 10:04 PM, Galchin Vasili wrote:

>       I am reading through the FFI doc. Any suggestions on enabling  
> Haskell programmers to model ANSI C structs that will be passed down  
> to C run-time?

The FFI spec is a wonderful document, but is of limited use in  
learning to use the FFI for practical tasks. I suggest you look into  
c2hs or some other tool that tries to help you with marshalling data  
structures (as compared to providing mechanisms sufficient for doing  
marshalling).

I suggest you do this even if you don't end up using a tool, as the  
generated Haskell has some carefully designed idioms that will  
definitely help.

cheers
peter