[Haskell-cafe] workarounds for Codec.Compression.Zlib errors in darcs

[Ketil Malde]

"Jason Dagit" <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:

>     That is, if you use the optional specification of a header file for each
>     foreign import, and if your Haskell compiler can compile via C, then any
>     checking that types match between Haskell and C can be performed
>     automatically, by the backend C compiler.

> Would this method work with return types since C compilers tend to let you
> ignore those?  In this example that brought up this discussion it was in fact
> an ignored return value that caused the problem.

I've tried to look at GCC's warning options, but couldn't make it
emit a warning on an ignored result.  (Doesn't mean it isn't in there,
of course)

-k
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